Theatre history

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!

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Beautiful Places...Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, UK, photo courtesy of the Globe Theatre’s press library.

Anatomy Lecture Theatre, at the Old Medical School in the University of Edinburgh. Designed in 1877 by Robert Rowand Anderson. Still in use.

I’ve been real inspired by old circus posters lately. I wonder what’s going to come out of this? hmm….

This informative timeline features images and information on theatre throughout the ages, from Ancient Greek amphitheatres to 21st century designs.

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Theatre History Timeline Restoration (1660 AD - 1750 AD) Medieval (925 AD - 1537 AD) Realism (1850 AD - 1875 AD) Primitive (?-600 BC) Very little is known about primitive theatre other than it was most likely used to re-enact hunts. It might have then evolved from after a hunt,