ELIZABETHAN

THEATRE
By group 3
Nurul Novitasari
Rosi Rahmawati
Siti Aminah
 Characteristics of Elizabethan drama
In addition to genre Romantic, the genre of tragedy and comedy is also a characteristic
drama in the Era of Elizabeth. In drama, the story of tragedy genre generally ending with
sadness, while comedy ending with happiness. In addition to the two genres, there is also a
tragicomedic subgenre which is a combination of the two genres.

The most important feature of Elizabethan theatre was the appearance of new stage forms,
with the result of an acting style completely different from anything before or after it. The so-
called apron stage, surrounded by the audience on three sides, could not make use of
the scenery of medieval pageants, but neither did it need and desire the spectacle of later
Jacobean masques, not to mention Victorian theatre and its claim for ‘reality’. Therefore, the
Elizabethan bare stage forced the playwright to provide everything verbally – the text of every
play contains all sorts of information that modern authors would include in their stage
directions only.
 Actors of Elizabethan Drama

●
● William Kempe (1560 - 1603)
Edward Alleyn (1566 - 1626)

● Richard Burbage (1567 - 1619) ● William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

● John Heminge (1556 - 1630) ● Christopher Beeston (1570 - 1638)

● William Rowley (1585 - 1642)
● Robert Armin (1568 - 1615)
● Henry Condell (1568 - 1627)
● Nathan Field (1587 - 1619)
● John Lowin (1576 - 1659)
● Joseph Taylor (1586 - 1652)
 The Famous Actors

● Edward Alleyn
● Richard Burbage

● Henry Condell

● John Hemmings

● William Shakespeare
 Elizabethan Theatre Plays

A. Comedy
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It,
The Tempest.

B. Tragedy  
Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet.

C. History
Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V.
 Plays writer of Elizabethan Drama

● George Chapman (c. 1559–1634)

● Thomas Dekker (c. 1572-1632)
● Thomas Heywood (c. 1573-1641)
● Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
● Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)
● John Lyly (c. 1553–1606)
● Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
● William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
● John Webster (c. 1580–c. 1634)
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