Actors
Audience
Costumes
Theatre
Customs
100
This is what drove the actors of the time to pursue their trade.
What is a desire to perform.
100
The royal court was mostly intended for these people.
What is the upper class.
100
This is the Elizabethan word for costume
What is apparel?
100
These buildings look forward to the operatic and proscenium-arch theaters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
What is playhouses?
100
True or false? A leading actor may have to remember up to 5,000 lines in a week.
What is true
200
This is a word Shakespearean actors used for "ad libbing"
What is "thribbling"
200
The audience of a show very rarely knew the name of this person.
What is the playwright
200
Lovers were represented by this colored costume.
Willow green
200
Playhouses were similar to these buildings
What is modern cinema?
200
Actors and writers could be jailed for this reason.
What is controversial content in their plays.
300
It was hard to become a good actor because of a lacking in these establishments.
What is acting schools.
300
Early audiences were composed of this sort of person.
What is people who want to be entertained.
300
Elizabethan costumes were representative of this time period.
The current time rather than the time of the setting. (i.e. Elizabethan clothing)
300
If you paid three pennies in a theater, you could get this luxury.
What is cushioned seats.
300
This person read and checked every play before it was allowed to be performed.
What is the Master of the Revels.
400
The lowest class of actor was seen as no better than beggars or thieves.
What is hired men.
400
This is a term for a group of actors. (Hint: NOT company!)
What is a troupe.
400
Clothing was curved or packed with this material
What is whalebone?
400
The actors waited here for their cues.
What is a back room behind the stage.
400
This person paid for the costumes, purchased plays to be performed, and paid wages.
What is the landlord.
500
It was against the law for the public, except for actors, to wear this
What is higher class apparel?
500
Theaters had this many sections
What is four.
500
Plays were censored if they included the following content
What is sedition (words that are rebellious against the government) or profanity.
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