Rebecca Kay Bright, Author

Some British Literature Notes Huts -  windows   located   above   the   music   galley,  could   be  used   by characters   playing   lookouts   or  sentries,   the oven   used   so  that   more  than   one   action   could   take   place   at  one   time Elizabethan   Theater   Limitations----no  women   actors  o   young  boys  (ages   10-12)  played   all  “juvenile”   female   parts and   men   played   “mature”   female   parts with no  artificial   lighting o   all  plays  performed   in  daytime weather   could   disrupt   performance   or  ruin   an  image few  sets   and   props   used o audiences   had   to  visualize   everything no  intermission  o except   musical   interludes  Shakespeare  born   in  Warwickshire   at  Stratford-on-Avon   baptized   on  April  26,  1564  married   in  1582  2  daughters:   Susanna,   Judith  1  son:  Hamnet  first   publication:   book   of  erotic   poems:   Venus   and   Adonis  provided   English   language   wit

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