Before Elizabeth I ascended to the British throne, theatre was broadly seen as sinful and crude. The Renaissance, accompanied by the Reformation and philosophical Humanism, elevates the artform from ...

saw one of his tasks as being 'to drill Harvard students to represent an Elizabethan audience', which involved 'grooming' them into 'fops, gallants, citizens' etc, in carefully choreographed sequences ...

The film explores the Elizabethan theater, focusing on Shakespeare's Globe Theater and its significance in London during his time. It discusses the limitations and conventions of the theater, ...

The Globe Theatre, for example ... exaggerated gestures so people could understand what they were saying. Elizabethan audiences loved special effects – especially gory, bloody ones!

The audience's reviews are extreme and contrasted, just like they were for the Elizabethan theatre. Connoisseurs of architecture claim that the Italian Rizzi took a bold step out of the era and ...