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Much Ado About Nothing THEN
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- 1Performance starts at...2 o'clock,
Broad daylight - 2The Theatre has (?) levels? The Theare has (?) capacity?...3
...3000 - 3The prices go up the......higher you are seated
- 4The Theatre is built by...James Burbage
- 5On arrival, they have no...knowledge of the play until announced
- 6What classes do the audience represent?Representative of all classes
- 7How educated are most of the audience?Most of the audience is illiterate, not educated.
- 8What advertising do they have?Word of mouth rather than programmers, posters or any kind of advertising.
- 9Why did the public come to see a playwright?Primary source of entertainment.
- 10(For entertainment) there was no... Almost no...Magazines, newspapers
Novels, or books. - 11The public thrived on the Theatre because...It filled their desire for story discussion among others. Specifically people lacking other cultural and educational opportunities. It gave them a place within society, inclusive.
- 12The audience of the time period soon became trained in......blank verse, therefore the audience was able to delve into the complexity of monologues, debates, puns, metaphors and more...
- 13The English language was...young (160 years old) It combined Latin, French, and AngloSaxn
- 14Grammar and Spelling changed...dramatically because the people of London spoke much more than they read.
- 15Since the language was so new, writers were able to...create new words daily...
- 16Poets began to express themselves in a new form of writing called ......Blank verse
- 17Women would have...to be escorted, so was mainly men and boys...
- 18Audience members are aware of......everyone around them
- 19They have to create a sense of disbelief because the audience environment is,Loud, busy and crowded.
In broad daylight.
Huge audiences.
Drinks and food sold during performance.
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- A2 DRAMA Flashcards on Much Ado About Nothing THEN, created by eschofieldlake on 02/06/2015.
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