This week's supplemental reading focused mostly on the development of the performance aspect of the work of Shakespeare. This passage started off with a conversation focusing on the common troupes that English audiences would have had to willful suspend their disbelief in order to fully process, things like boys dressed as women or using candles to indicate nighttime, in the middle of the day. It raised the question of to what extent audiences of the time truly were every truly able to become engrossed in these performances and accept a male play Juliet or weather they simply found it entertaining but unrealistic. Id imagine that many people of the time found these bits of theatrical strangeness potentially off putting at first but eventually
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To what extent do you think audiences willfully suspended their disbelief considering these unrealistic components?
How were actors of Shakespeare's time trained? were there schools, the said they praised good memory but how did one train to be come an actor?
How famous were Burbage and Kempe? How famous were they compared to Shakespeare? Was it truly just Kempe's ad-libbing that got him fired from the company? What did he do after he left the King’s Men?
This section said that Burbage's characters died off with him, do we have any frame of reference for what those performances might have entailed or looked like?
What was the functional relationship between the Globe and the Blackfriars theaters for the company, do we know which shows were staged where?
Were all traces of the kings men company lost during the english civil war? Is anything left today?
This reading made it seem like female performers weren't included in Shakespeare productions until the restoration and the reign of Charles II, how true was this? Did Shakespeare only ever see boys play his females? was Mary Sanderson really the first lady lady
To what extent do you think audiences willfully suspended their disbelief considering these unrealistic components?
How were actors of Shakespeare's time trained? were there schools, the said they praised good memory but how did one train to be come an actor?
How famous were Burbage and Kempe? How famous were they compared to Shakespeare? Was it truly just Kempe's ad-libbing that got him fired from the company? What did he do after he left the King’s Men?
This section said that Burbage's characters died off with him, do we have any frame of reference for what those performances might have entailed or looked like?
What was the functional relationship between the Globe and the Blackfriars theaters for the company, do we know which shows were staged where?
Were all traces of the kings men company lost during the english civil war? Is anything left today?
This reading made it seem like female performers weren't included in Shakespeare productions until the restoration and the reign of Charles II, how true was this? Did Shakespeare only ever see boys play his females? was Mary Sanderson really the first lady lady