Elizabethan era theater

Sheakespeare's "The 12-th night"

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Stage at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

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A Winter's Tale. Jenny Tiramani, costumer. Globe Theater.

Elizabethan Theatre and Amphitheatre History Facts. The Elizabethan theatre is the original renaissance theatre. It merged various styles of plays from all over Europe.

William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, performed at the Globe Theater

Music had been used to accompany poems during the medieval era. The Elizabethans taste for the Theatre was soon enhanced by the accompaniment of music. It was only a short step to combine the accustomed music with its accompanying verse with the exciting pageantry of the Elizabethan theatre. The importance of music to the Elizabethans was reflected in the plays of William Shakespeare who makes more than five hundred references to music in his plays and poems!