Shakespeare's Theatre and Jacobean Tragedy
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Shakespeare's Theatre and Jacobean Tragedy
How do Jacobean Tragedies and the Globe Theatre link with Macbeth?
- Macbeth is a Jacobean Tragedy due to amount of death and tragedy there is throughout the play
- Macbeth would have been performed at the Globe Theatre
Challenge:
- Can you link this to LOTF?
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what a Jacobean Tragedy is
- Know what theatre Shakespeare used
- Link these two topics with Macbeth
Shakespeare’s Theatre
Features of a Jacobean Tragedy
- Definition: Cynical, often violent, drama written during the early seventeenth century in England; stems from a pessimistic worldview and contends that all people, innocent and evildoers, ultimately die violent deaths.
- Jacobean tragedies always consist of deaths, a good example of this is Hamlet, Macbeth is a Jacobean Tragedy as there is a lot of killing and death throughout the book
- Shakespeare’s first plays were at the “Globe Theatre”.
- The globe burnt down in 1613.
- People went to listen to plays instead of watch them in the 17th century
- The audience interacted with the actors as much as possible, but sometimes the performers had to compete with the noise of the crowd, they sometimes hurled things like oranges at the performers and tried to join in on the stage, if the actors were bad the crowd would chuck tomatoes