What is English Renaissance drama sometimes called?
Q: What is English Renaissance drama sometimes called?
A: English Renaissance drama is sometimes called Elizabethan drama, since its most important developments started when Elizabeth I was Queen of England from 1558 to 1603.
Q: When did the first permanent theatre building open in London?
A: The first permanent theatre building opened in London in 1576.
Q: What types of plays were written during this period?
A: Playwrights worked in both classic types of drama, tragedy and comedy, as well as their own type of history play about earlier English kings and the events of their reigns.
Q: How were plays typically written during this period?
A: Plays were often written in poetry; early plays were mainly in rhymed verse, though as time passed playwrights came to prefer unrhymed blank verse. Prose was also used in some plays, mostly for comedy.
Q: Why did English Renaissance drama suddenly stop in 1642?
A: In the early years of the English Civil War, the Puritans who were fighting King Charles gained control of London and the region around it. The Puritans were against play-acting; they thought it was sinful and immoral so they forced theatres to close until 1660.
Q: What is Restoration drama or theatre usually referred to as?
A: Restoration drama or theatre is usually referred to as Restoration drama or Restoration theatre.
Q: Who allowed theatres to re-open after 1642? A: After 1642, theatres re-opened when a new king, Charles II, let them do so.
