Elizabethan Theatre & Drama Drama and theatrical presentation in Elizabethan England is not acknowledged and remembered today because of individual plays, but for the physical plant itself, its facilities, social attendance, general themes, and writers of the time. Plays were important and vital to the time period, but the playhouse and factors surrounding it, really characterize the Elizabethan period. Writers and actors alike all play an important part in the theatre, and very important is the …
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…and playhouses are something to admire. First, the playhouses so complicated, as they were with their octagonal shape and wood material were built so thoughtfully and planned out. Second, the drama had its own flavor and theme. The whole Elizabethan movement is very detailed from the entrance of the actual playhouses to the very stage directions of a play. Elizabethan theatre is a complete package that combines excellent writers and plays and amazing structural theatres.