March 22 is Speech Practice.
Tasks to do:
1) Vocabulary "Painting"(reading, pronunciation,translation)
2) Vocabulary Work (exercises).
Read the text Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and do 2 vocabulary exercises.
Exercise 1 Exercise 2
Do not forget to accept my EDUCAPLAY invitation!!!
3. Reading and Speaking
Be ready to check in class the following tasks.
March 11 - 16 Theatre in Society
Topical Vocabulary from English-3 Part 2, pp. 4-13
Tasks A – C (Texts 1 – 4) from English-3 Part 2, pp. 13-17
III. March 25 - 30 Classical and Modern Theatre
Tasks A – C (Texts 1 – 7) from English-3 Part 2, pp. 23-35
4) Rendering: week 5 and 6 (in your blogs).
Deadline: Saturday, March 24
5) Laboratory work 1.
The written task can be ommitted. We do Task 5 instead!
6) Watch a video (to your choice) and leave a commentary (in this blog).
What did you learn about the theatrical revolution?
First of all, when Shakespeare was born in 1564 London didn’t have a single theater. Professional drama did not exist at all. Only 30 years later over 15,000 Londoners went to see a play each week. In a few decades modern theater was born. Elizabethans became the most experienced play-goers in history. It also should be mentioned that Shakespeare lived in the age of profound cultural transformation. The real opportunity for him and his fellow-dramatists came with the suppression of Catholic drama. The theatre became the place for a new kind of communion of Englishness where they could freely express their emotions: cry and laugh (which they did a lot). Besides, with the theater came celebrities and stars, like Kyd Marlow, Thomas Kyd, Robert Green, and in 1592 William Shakespeare. In their hands the stage went on a new level. So, with the suppression of one culture came the birth of another, holding the Golden age of English Drama and the Age of Shakespeare.
ReplyDeleteI knew much about the theatrical revolution from the video. Truly speaking I have rendered the article concerning this theme. That’s why it is an easy way to me to answer this question.
ReplyDeleteAs we know the father of the feather, William Shakespeare was born in 1564. That time there was no single theatre, but then, thirty years after that, the modern theatre was born, the first one since the romance time. 15000 of Londoners had a chance to see plays every week.
We are to say that, under the influence of the theatrical revolution, the city changed greatly: London’s population doubled, new audience was created and profit increased greatly. Theater was the place outside the city’s law. That was why the Cultural Revolution happened. Though it was difficult to exist because of the powerful church execution. The church was opposed to the event as the Bible was brought to life (reincarnation of The Last Supper).
Now the theater is considered to be the place of new-found communion – Englishness. The Globe of Will is the place where the one culture could be born in another.
The history of the theatre is long and rich and that video gives us a chance to know the main periods of it. It is strange to think that when William Shakespeare was born in 1564 London did not have a single theatre. Moreover, professional drama did not exist at all. But only 30 years later 15000 Londoners visited the theatre and see plays each week. Thus, in a few decades London theatre was born. It is mentioned that Elizabethans became the most experienced play goers in history. Then in several years London population doubled creating a new audience thirsty for entertainment. Shakespeare, the greatest word-picturer of all, lived in a period when his only opportunity was Catholic drama. But then the theatre was transformed and became the place for a new kind of communion of Englishness. There the emotions could be expressed in any way. The author pointed out that even if one culture is forbidden or banned it may lead to the birth of another.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I’d like to say that this video is worth watching for all people who are interested in theatre and want to learn more about this matter. The first fact that has impressed me that when Shakespeare was born in 1564 , London didn’t have a single theater and all plays were performed by amateurs. It was replaced by so called “theatrical boom” 30 years later - 15000 Londoners went to the theatre each week. Form this point of view Shakespeare’s contribution to art and theatre in particular is evident. It was also interesting to learn that Elizabethans were the most experienced play goers in history. In the following years, London popularity doubled thus creating new audience for entertainment. However, theatre got the new function – it doesn’t only entertain people, but became one of the best ways to express your emotions and feelings which may vary from sorrow to happiness, from laugh to cry. The plays which were based on the Biblical plot occupied a special place in the Theatrical Revolution which made the Bible brought alive. Probably today such a kind of plays of those times may seem primitive, but in that day they were extraordinarily popular because they expressed the new way of thinking, the new life perception. Finally, the author point out that with the suppression of one culture came the birth of another.
ReplyDeleteTheatrical revolution was the so called transition from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment. As we know, during the Renaissance religious issues were roughly discussed, and people gathered for watching the film from the Bible – that time it was extraordinary popular. However with the beginning of the Cultural Revolution and the suppression of catholic drama, the theatre became the place for a kind of communion of Englishness. Just Shakespeare (as well as Kit Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Robert Green) became that turning point in the beginning of the English theatre, as when he was born there was not any single one and professional drama did not exist. Only thirty years later Londoners watched Shakespeare’s plays each week in the Globe, coming through the storm of emotions, blood and tears. Thus with the suppression of one culture came the birth of another, like the beginning of the Age of Shakespeare.
ReplyDeleteAlthough Shakespeare's plays were performed at other venues during the playwright's career, the Globe Theatre in the Southwark district of London was the venue at which the Bard's best known stage works (including his four great tragedies) were first produced. The Globe was built during Shakespeare's early period in 1599 by one of his long-standing associates, Cuthbert Burbage, the brother of the most famous Shakespearean actor of the Elizabethan Age, Richard Burbage.
ReplyDeleteIn 1597, Cuthbert Burbage inherited another London theater that was the first of its kind and simply called the Theatre. But there was a problem with this valuable legacy: Cuthbert Burbage owned the Theatre, its structure and materials, but the land on which the Theatre was erected was leased by his father and his eldest son was unable to negotiate a renewal of the land lease. The far-sighted if fledgling impresario tore down the Theatre and used its timbers and other elements as the building materials for what would become the Globe Theatre. Before erecting the Globe at a nearby site, Cuthbert assured himself and his partners that they would have a stream of stellar content and the most renowned company of actors in England. Burbage essentially built the Globe for the Chamberlain's Men, including their chief writer, William Shakespeare. The lease for the land and the ownership of the Globe was divided in two: 50 percent of the assets were owned by Cuthbert and, Richard Burbage; the other 50 percent stake was apportioned among five other members of the Chamberlain's men, John Heminge, Augustine Phillips, Thomas Pope, Will Kempe, and, Shakespeare himself.
As I understood the theatrical revolution is a so-called history of the modern theatre's birth. In short, before Shakespeare, a single theatre didn't exist at all. But under influence of the cultural whitewashing of the Protestant Reformation, the Cultural Revolution happened and the theatre was developed and went on a new level. And one of extraordinary people who influenced its development was William Shakwspeare.
ReplyDeleteI found out that in the time when W. Shakespeare was born, London did not have a single theatre. Professional drama didn't exist at all. Plays were performed by amateurs and only 30 years after, over 15 thousand Londoners went to see a play each week. In a few decades modern theatre was born. You can never really pin down why such cultural changes happen but in 1580s London's population doubled creating a new audience thirsty of entertainment. Shakespeare lived in an age of profound cultural transformation. The real opportunity for W. Shakespeare and his fellow dramatist came with the suppression of catholic drama. For hundreds of years people would gather to watch the miracle or mystery plays. The most dramatic stories from the Bible 'The Last Supper' or 'The three Kings'. It is necessary to note that to modern ears and eyes the miracle or mystery plays do seem just a bit primitive. In those days they were extraordinarily popular. People longed to see the Bible Book alive. For protester reformers however, they were unwanted reminders of the old catholic world. Later they were just switched off. The theatre became a place for a new kind of community. People all went through the same storm of emotions. There was one thing they could do here and could not at cathedrals - laugh out loudly. With the theatre such great stars as Marlowe, T. Kyd and R. Greene and of course W. Shakespeare appeared.
ReplyDeleteThe theme of cultural revolution in England is the turning point in the world of art at all, so Shakespear's contribution to it was critically important. But at the year of 1564, the date of William's birth, there was no any idea what the word "theatre" means ( sorry, Greek people ).But after his inner development as a playwright and the man of on-stage art the influence of theatre reached a very high level. The city transformed greatly, over 15 thousand Londoners came there just to watch such plays each week. Pepople had to forget about misery and devastation, theft and murder. Feeble mind of poverty-man world was covered by the great genius and his works. Earth trembled from the new wave, but not everyone was happy about it. Controversial subjects plays, religious issues made some officials to blush, but the time has come - the people wanted to see another world, the world of fantasy and reality, embodied by wooden boards.
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