Go inside a Globe Theatre model with Maynard Mack to examine features of the Elizabethan playhouse
Maynard Mack of Yale University using a model of the Globe Theatre to discuss performance in William Shakespeare's day.
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MAYNARD MACK: Shakespeare's own playhouse, the Globe, was a many-sided, or possibly, a round structure three stories high, enclosing a central arena that was open to the sky. From this source came the lighting, for there were no footlights; and, for this reason, plays were always performed in the Elizabethan playhouse in the afternoon.
Let's go inside. As we enter the playhouse, we are looking at a stage that is not separated from us by an arch and curtain, as in our theaters. Instead, the Elizabethan stage juts far out into the central arena. And it has the audience sitting or standing on three sides of it. You can see at a glance how different Shakespeare's theater is in this respect.
Let's go inside. As we enter the playhouse, we are looking at a stage that is not separated from us by an arch and curtain, as in our theaters. Instead, the Elizabethan stage juts far out into the central arena. And it has the audience sitting or standing on three sides of it. You can see at a glance how different Shakespeare's theater is in this respect.
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