Shake+Speare's+Theatre

=__Shakespeare's Theatre__=

**What was a Elizabethan Theatre?**
==== The famous Shakespeare performed in many large theaters called Elizabethan theaters. The first Elizabethan theater was made in 1576 in Shoreditch by a English made by the name of James Burbage. The theater's design was based on the coliseum built in ancient Rome. Elizabethan theaters were larges performing places made in the Elizabethan Era. They could hold many thousands of people per play. The elizabethan theaters were the start of amphitheater. The theaters were used for performances and the other activities such as gambling, betting, drinking similar to a casino activities. A well know example of a Elizabethan theater is the Globe. It was made by Shakespeare's company. ====

**What did the Elizabethan Theaters Change?**
====The Elizabethan theaters changed a lot of the way people saw and performed in plays and dramas. At first all of the plays were done in the yard of a big inn or hotel. They were called inn-yards. You see the theaters in the beginning of the 1500's weren't very popular. The London Law banned the true purpose of theaters: being used for places to perform and act. All of the plays and performance had to performed outside of London hence outside of London's juristiction. So the plays took part in Southwark across the Thames River. Before with theaters the writers would own the play they wrote but, the theaters had companies. The companies had all the right to the plays. They owned them not the writers.====

Why were Elizabethan Theaters not popular?
==== The reason for this is because, the theaters reputation wasn't a admirable one. The theaters were just like casinos of the present century. They all had gambling and betting. They had strong drinks so the theaters sometimes was a place of exchanging bullets and gunfire. There were sometimes men who would smoking while playing poker. They would sometimes eat nuts and apples and throw the remains of them into the audience down below. The theaters were so packed there was tons of crime occupying in there. The queen Mary enforced strict rules but, the crime would stop/cease. ====

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