Elizabethan theatre

Music had been used to accompany poems during the medieval era. The Elizabethans taste for the Theatre was soon enhanced by the accompaniment of music. It was only a short step to combine the accustomed music with its accompanying verse with the exciting pageantry of the Elizabethan theatre. The importance of music to the Elizabethans was reflected in the plays of William Shakespeare who makes more than five hundred references to music in his plays and poems!

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Influences the Elizabethan theatre - Medieval theatre, mystery and morality plays, Greek tragedy, Biblical themes, Masques and Commedia dell Arte. Queen Elizabeth 1st expected to see a different play each day.

Affiliated with Queen Elizabeth I’s reign (1558- 1603), the Elizabethan era is seldom considered to be the golden age of English history. England saw the English Renaissance and a rich bundle of fl…

Elizabethan Theatre and Amphitheatre History Facts. The Elizabethan theatre is the original renaissance theatre. It merged various styles of plays from all over Europe.

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Elizabethan Theatre with Audience

The courtyards of London inns often served as playhouses before regular theaters were built. These inn yards furnished many suggestions for the early theaters, as the picture shows. The stage was in one end, and the open space in front served as the pit. The galleries around the sides afforded additional space for spectators.

Beautiful Places...Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, UK, photo courtesy of the Globe Theatre’s press library.