Globe Theatre

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Film of a Tudor theatre and an extract from Shakespeare.

Views of the Globe Theatre in London, a Tudor theatre with segregated seats for different income groups in the audience. Includes an extract of William Shakespeare's Henry V on stage performed as it would have been in Elizabethan times.
From: Zig Zag Tudor Life: Entertainment: An Actor's Story
First broadcast : 19 October 1998

Teachers' notes

Age Group : 7-9

Subject : History

Topic : Tudors and Stuarts

Keywords : Tudors, Tudor theatre, Tudor everyday life,

Notes : Can use clip as background to everyday life in Tudor times - helping to understand forms of entertainment available at the time.


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