Playhouses
This famous circular, open-air theatre was built in London in 1599.
The Globe Theatre
Along with Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson, he is considered one of the most famous English playwrights of all time.
William Shakespeare
This country is considered the "cradle" of the Renaissance.
What is Italy?
This is the nickname given to the poorest audience members who paid a penny to stand during the play.
Groundlings
During the Medieval era, this institution controlled theatre to teach illiterate audiences.
Catholic Church
This "picture frame" structure surrounding the stage was invented in Italy and is still used today.
Proscenium Arch
This playwright wrote The Spanish Tragedy, establishing a massive new, violent genre.
Thomas Kyd
Because they lacked large urban centers, these countries relied on traveling troupes and kept Medieval morality plays alive.
Scotland & Wales
Because women were banned from the stage, these actors played female roles like Juliet and Lady Macbeth.
Boy Players
During the Renaissance, the English Monarchy censored plays to prevent this.
Rebellion/Insults
This is the name for the standing-room-only area directly in front of an English stage.
The Pit (or the Yard)
This is the genre featuring murder, ghosts, and a play-within-a-play that heavily influenced Hamlet.
The Revenge Tragedy
The Royal Tutor John Florio brought the culture of this country to the English court.
Italy
This is the name for a rehearsed, physical comedy routine used in Commedia dell'arte.
Lazzi.
Near the end of the Middle Ages, an increase in this allowed people to understand ideas without relying on the clergy.
Education
In Spain, plays were performed in these rectangular, open-air courtyard spaces.
Corrales
Playwright George Chapman was imprisoned in 1605 because his play offended this specific monarch
King James I
Theatre struggled to become a popular art form in this country after 1603 due to fierce opposition from the "Kirk."
Scotland & Wales
This religious group took over the English Parliament and legally banned all public stage plays.
Puritans
As the Renaissance grew, playwrights stopped writing exclusively about salvation and started writing about these topics.
Politics, Comedy, Human Relationships
France often converted these specific indoor sporting spaces into theatres.
Indoor tennis courts
Scholars believe Thomas Kyd wrote this hypothetical lost play, which served as the primary source material for Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Ur-Hamlet
This Italian physical comedy style relied entirely on recognizable masks and stock characters rather than a written script.
Commedia dell'arte
In 1642, the Puritans closed the theatres during the outbreak of this major historical conflict.
English Civil War
This major 16th-century religious movement divided religious authority, weakening the Church's unified control over culture.
The Protestant Reformation