ewed as natural by the Elizabethan audience. In order to determine the style we must look at it from the Elizabethan views of natural. In either case, formal or natural the actors must achieve a level of reality sufficient to involve us. This holds true whether the illusion is an imitation of contemporary life, historical life, or mythical life, the concern is not by which means this illusion is created whether it be conventional and symbolic or contextual and descriptive, but that it is created. Actors perfected all the new and old roles that they had and the presentation of these roles did not change over time, there was no invention of new devices and characteristics. They performance of a role that at one point may have been considered natural may, in latter performances have been considered formal even if the performance of the role was the same on both accounts. For although the roles were performed and acted did not change the audience did change over time and the audiences perception over what was considered natural would have changed....
