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Davide Riente, Michael Ruberto, Christian Benzi

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Davide Riente, Michael Ruberto, Christian Benzi

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-FROM SQUARES TO INNS
In the early 16th century actors travelled around the country performing their plays. They did that in town squares or other public places and at night they stayed in the local inn. Soon they started to performe in the inn courtyard, that was a sort of big hotel with many galleries. That was an advantage for the owner of it because he could attrack more costumers who paid a lot to watch the plays.
-THEATRE COMPANIES AND ACTORS
In the 16th century actors were not well-liked because they were considered vagabonds and the people often thought that they could bring bubonic plague ,which was very frequent at the time. The situation changed when the government gave the licence to the aristocracy to form theatre companies. Later a lot of actors become rich superstars. But acting was not easy: sometimes they had to learn their part in little time. Until 1660 only men could performe plays and so young boys played female parts wearing white make-up

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Lady Macbeth, the lords, the ladis,Lennox and Ross were sitting around the table, Lennox saw Macbeth and he asked to sita t the table with them next to Ross. Macbeth answerd that the table was full because he saw, next to Ross, the ghost of Banquo, who had already been killed by the murderers of Macbeth. Lady Macbeth, to protect her husband, said to the gentlemn, that he suffered from strange condition since he was a child. Later Macbeth started losing all control and screaming to the ghost; so the wife decided to take him back to the room and she asked to the gentlemen to go away because her husban was out of control. They remained alone and lady Macbeth started blaming to her husband for what he had done and he decided to go to the 3 witches to know more about future the day after.

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The Elizabethan Theatres
-Private Theatres.
Private theatres were also called playhouses. They had comfortable seats for about 300 spectators and they were open all year. The rooms were lit by candles for evening performances and because of this the tickets were five times more expensive than those for public theatres.
-The Plays
There was a lot of competition between theatres and companies changed their plays very often, sometimes even every day, so advertising was very difficult. One technique they used was to put a flag on top of the theatre: a white flag represented a comedy, a red flag for a history play and a black flag for a tragedy.
The most common authors were William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson and before production, their plays were checked by the City authorities to make sure that they didn't contain any political or religious idea against the State.
-Costumes
In the Elizabethan period, only the upper classes could wear colorful clothes made of expensive materials, such as silk and velvet. Actors were given a special permission: they could wear luxury clothes because each colour had a meaning and everyone could understand what character an actor was representing from his clothes.

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ACT IV
The act four starts with the three witches dancing around a couldron in a dark cavern and saying magic words, while outside there's a storm. Then Macbeth arrives in the cavern and asks them to tell him the whole secret, but they just says that is a bad thing with no name. There's a clap of thunder and a ghost wearing a helmet appears and recommends Macbeth to pay attention to Macduff. Another thunder echos in the sky and a child ghost covered in blood appears. He tells him that no one can hurts him so he can't be afraid of Macduff. A third thunder claps as another ghost with crown arrives and explains him to be brave because he won't be defeated until Birnam wood comes to fight. Macbeth doesn't understand, but the ghost disappears leaving him in a fog. While he is wondering if Banquo's son will become king, a line of eight ghost kings come out: they all seem like Banquo and the last one is holding a mirror, inside there's Banquo's descendants and also him, who smiles at Macbeth. Then they disappears. Macbeth, scared of that, goes out to the cavern and meets Lennox, who tells him that Macduff has escaped to England, so he planes to go to his castle and kill his wife and children. Two murderers sended by Macbeth reach Macduff's castle and kill them. Macduff and Malcolm, that are in England, make planes to defeat Macbeth as they are noticed that Lady Macduff and his children have been killed.

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There are a lot of films that have got the same plot of Macbeth, but there is one in particular that reinterprets the original story of the book which is called "The throne of blood". It's a japanese film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1957. Generals Miki and Washizu are commanders under lord Sutzuki, who reigns in the castle of Spider's Web forest. While they are going to the castle they meet a spirit who tells them their future. Whashizu will be lord of the Northern Garrison and maybe lord of Spider's web castle. Miki will be commander of the first fortress and his son will become a lord. When Washizu arrives at the lord's castle, he tells his wife about the prediction; they decide to kill Tsuzuki drugging the guards and they accuse one of them. Washizu decides that Miki's son will be the king because his wife cant't have any babies, but Asaji, Washizu's wife tells him that she is pregnant and she forces him to kill Miki and his son. During the banquet, Washizu drinks a lot and he sees Miki's ghost and he admits the murder. Meanwhile a guard arrives with Miki's head saying that his son has escaped. The following morning Washizu discovers his wife's miscarriage and he goes into the forest to find the spirit who has told them that he would be in danger if the trees of the forest attacked the castle. He thinks that it's impossible but the day after Washizu and his wife looking out of the window they see some trees marching towards them. they try to fight against the trees but their destiny is doomed: a tree goes close to them and it kills Washizu and Asaji with his branches,

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Act V

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ACT III
In King Macbeth's palace Banquo is thinking about the way that Macbeth used to become king when he enters in the room with Lady Macbeth and they invite the friend to the banquet the same night and Banquo accepts, but he says that in the afternoon he's going out riding with his son and maybe he will arrive late. For Macbeth this is the opportunity to kill Banquo's son to avoid that he became the king, so he called two men who will be the murderers and they offered their help in exchange for money. In the meantime the king and the queen are dressing for the banquet, but they are still not happy for what they are doing. Lady Macbeth tries to understand what torments his husband,but he only give her one sign, without saying what is going to happen.
Then the scene moves into the forest where the murderers assumed by Macbeth find and kill Banquo while Banquo's son succeds in escaping from them.Then the murderers come back to the castle and they say to Macbeth what is just happened in the forest,that's they only do one part of the mission. Lady Macbeth, the lords, the ladis,Lennox and Ross were sitting around the table, Lennox saw Macbeth and he asked to sita t the table with them next to Ross. Macbeth answerd that the table was full because he saw, next to Ross, the ghost of Banquo, who had already been killed by the murderers of Macbeth. Lady Macbeth, to protect her husband, said to the gentlemn, that he suffered from strange condition since he was a child. Later Macbeth started losing all control and screaming to the ghost; so the wife decided to take him back to the room and she asked to the gentlemen to go away because her husban was out of control. They remained alone and lady Macbeth started blaming to her husband for what he had done and he decided to go to the 3 witches to know more about future the day after.

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The Elizabethan theatre
- Public theatres:
During the Elizabethan age theatre was becoming very popular. For this reason in 1574 the administration of city of London decided to build a large public theatre. The first theatre was "The Theatre" opened in 1576. These theatres were large, circular, squere and octagonal; open-air in the centre and with covered galleries. There was also some special effects with smoke and fireworks. In the gallery above the stage there was also the Orchestra. Shakespeare's theatre was "The Globe Theatre" it was built in 1599, and it was very similar to "The Swan Theatre". The Globe Theatre was rebuilt in 1997 and now is very similar to the original one which was closed in 1644. Whereas in the Swan Theatre the plays were usually a few hours long and took place in the afternoon: there were no lights, no intervals and no toilets.
- The Audience:
The audience was very noisy: they laughed laudly, made comments sometime bad comments to show their feelings if they didn't like the performance and if they didn't like the performance they used to throw their snacks that they had bought outside the theatre at the actors.