The Elizabethan Drama
The first English plays – written and performed in the 14th century – told religious stories and took place in churches. In the following two centuries, under the influence of the Renaissance, the topics and performance of plays changed.
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[...] from the medieval to the modern world. Renaissance plays no longer dealt with religious subjects. In London, in the 1570s the first institutionalized public playhouses, The Rose and The Theatre, were built. [...]
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