ctors usually tell us where they are and what time of day it is in their lines. -the stage was a raised platform, it had a stage house behind the back wall to store props and for the actors to change their costumes if needed, and make entrances and exits from -there was a balcony, called the "inner above" to be used if needed, but most of the action took place downstage -actors usually wore their own clothes unless they were portraying someone evil, royal, or female -women were not allowed to perform on stage and so boys would perform all female parts -boys were apprentised to the acting profession between the ages of 6 and 14 -actors would have to learn many parts of a play, since up to three different plays would be performed in the same week by a company -acting was not a well respected profession at this time The Closing of the Theatres -theatre was popular until 1642 when the Puritans closed down all theatres -Puritans believed that playhouses were evil because it had nothing to do with God -the Restoration Period began in1660 with the instatement of King Charles II Overview of an Elizabethan Outfit "She must be stifling in that thing" http://www.dnaco.net/~aleed/corsets/index.html This is a listing of the main elements of Elizabethan costume. (By the term "Elizabethan", I mean the dress worn by the English approximately during Queen Elizabeth's reign (1560-1600). Each item is accompanied by a short definition and explanation accompanying each item as well as pointers to more detailed information elsewhere at this site. Even when one doesn't take into account the variations in style between 1550 and 1590, and the radical spectrum of fashion occurring between the middling poor and nobility, there is a bewildering variety in English Elizabethan womenswear--French gowns, round gowns, loose gowns, night gowns, doublets, Italian gowns, and Flemish and Polish gowns, just for starters. So this is a general listing, not a specific one,...
