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| center to where traveling bands of players came while not performing |
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| where a small group of players would arrange with the owner of this to perform their short pieces in the square open yard around this |
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| where parliament passed the "act for the punishment of vagabonds" |
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| Act for the punishment of vagabonds |
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| stated that if the actors could not prove that they had masters, they would be whipped and burnt on the ear |
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| first native english tragedy |
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| first native English comedy |
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| built the first permanent professional public playhouse in England (the Theater) |
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| queen elizabeth & her court |
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| poet-playwright-scholars who attended the famous English universities at Cambridge/Oxford, changed their educated but formal style of writing and learned to write for the audience of the public theater |
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-a great poet and dramatist
-died tragically in a tavern fight for his antireligious views
-wrote the History of Doctor Fastus |
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| christopher marlowes most famous play |
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| wrote the most popular play of the 1500s, the spanish tradegy calle a "revenge play" b/c it contained blood/murder |
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| saw the plays of Shakespeare |
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-a man of mystery
-wrote 4 brilliant tragedies
-explored a wide reange of subjects
-knew how to build dramatic scenes full of conflict/emotion |
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| developed from history books |
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-didnt need to see new stories...they enjoyed old ones
-loved violence |
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