Shakespearean Theatre

I will present a few facts that I took from a lecture and a video that we watched about Shakespearean theatre. It was at first seen as slanderous theatre to the royal court. Although it was seen as slanderous, Queen Elizabeth eventually obtained a liking for these plays which is why the Shakespearean period can also be referred to as the Elizabethan period. It consisted of "university wits" who were playwrights from Cambridge and Oxford who changed their educated format of plays to those that would appeal to the public audience. Such playwrights were Christopher Marlowe and John Lyly. John Hemmings and Henry Condell eventually published Shakespeare's works in a compilation called the First Folio.