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The first proper theater as we know it was called the Theatre built at Shoreditch, London in 1576 and the owner was James Burbage. James Burbage had obtained a 21 year lease with permission to build the first playhouse aptly named The Theatre Before this time plays were performed in the courtyard of inns or inn-yards or sometimes in the houses of noblemen or in extreme circumstances on open ground. After the Theatre further open air playhouses theaters opened in the London area,including the Rose Theatre 1587 and the Hope Theatre 1613.The 21 year lease for the ground upon which.The Theatre had been built was due to expire at the end of 1597.William Shakespeare had a stake holding in the Globe Theatre and also acted in some of the productions of the plays. It is not known exactly how many roles Shakespeare played himself, although we do have some documented information.It is not known exactly how many roles Shakespeare played himself, although we do have some documented information.The endeavor was not without controversy. A furious Giles Allen later sued Peter Street, the Burbage's carpenter, for £800 in damages. The courts found in favor of the Lord Chamberlain's Men and ordered Allen to desist from any further legal wrangling. The Globe would play host to some of Shakespeare's greatest works over the next decade. In an ironic epilogue, the troupe won the right in 1609 to produce plays at Blackfriars, and subsequently split time between there and the Globe.Shakespeare's Globe relied on solar power-an open roof provided illumination for performances. The new Globe does include electricity, but is also open to the elements; weather permitting, its season runs May to October.
Some shows are staged with all-male casts as they would have been during Shakespeare's time. Tours are offered throughout the day year-round, although there is no access to the theater during the season's matinee performances.The most expensive seats in the house were those known as the Lords Rooms. They were located immediatedly above and behind the stage in the area also used by the musicians. Although such a location may not seem ideal to the modern day theatregoer, these seats had a number of key advantages to the rich of the day. First, they were well removed from the masses in the rest of the theatre. Second, they were themselves on display, so they could show off the latest fashions, and even the fact that they were rich enough to sit there. Third, although they could not see the play very well, they could hear it. This last point is actually extremely significant, since it was to hear plays that Elizabethans went to the theatre; there are many references of people going to hear a play rather than going to see one in the literature of the time. It is from this concept that the modern word audience is derived. Places in the Lords Rooms would have cost 6 pennies each.Shakespeare himself was an actor as well as playwright and probably taylored a few of his roles to suit his own stage skills. It was however neither his writing, nor acting skills that were the direct source of his income, for actors and playwrights were both poorly paid positions to hold. Instead it was because he was a good businessman and held a share in the company itself. Although without his writing skills they would not have done nearly so well.The actors that performed were William Shakespeare
Richard Burbadge (Burbage)
John Hemings (Heminges)
Augustine Phillips
William Kempt (Will Kempe)
Thomas Poope (Pope)
George Bryan
Henry Condell
William Slye
Richard Cowly
John Lowine
Samuell Crosse
Alexander Cooke
Samuel Gilburne
Robert Armin
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