the renaissance

The word renaissance is a French word meaning rebirth and started in the 1500, before and during the time of theatre People used to go to hangings for entertainment and go bear baiting (terrorising a bear) on a Thursday theatres were closed so people went bear bating instead of the theatre. The renaissance ended around the 1600 and Theatre stoped completely when the puritans got into power, after england got the monarchi back into power the Victorians Made england prim and proper making theatre a more respected form of art. Like theatre today the wrighters of the day wrote about what was happening at that time. In the that time The 'church of England' was formed, we were exploring other country's and invading them and getting invaded by other country's, the black plage started (and the people at the time were not very hygienic). The people at that time believed in Myths and magic and thought that fairies, goblins and witches and thought that they would punish the innocent at night many people were accused of being a witch. In these times they were very religious and everyone believed in god but they were getting more independence and writers wrote more challenging play wrights, exploring issues no one dared to speak about before the church of England was formed. * Play writers - Shakespeare's work - their is at least 2 of his plays that have been lost but 38 survive and he had a company called 'Chamberlains man'. -Ben Jonson. -Christopher Marlowe. -James Burbage who built the first purpose theatre.  -Richard Burbage. Most theatres were built out side of the city as they would have more freedom to wright about risky things. Two examples of theatres are 'The Rose 1587' and 'The swan 1595'. renaissance started because the culture was changing and people wanted to learn more about it.