Elizabethan Theatre

Elizabethan Theatre

• Elizabethan theatre was usually based in London but theatre companies used to travel all around England and some parts of Europe. 
• Theatre groups rarely performed a show/play two days in a row.
• Most plays had a political message involved which sometimes had to be banned from stage due to authorities not allowing it.
• They had all male casts as it was illegal for women to perform on stage. To over come to the difficulties with having no women to portray the female characters, they made masks with long hair attached to them and cast the younger men as the women roles, for their higher voices and womanly figures. This was exactly the same in Greek Theatre.