Coming soon: The Elizabethan Stage explains the important differences between Shakespeare's stage and our own. Knowing these details help you understand a number of the features that you'll run into while reading the plays.

In this course you'll learn:

• A brief history of the English stage.
• Why we have a “box office."
• The number and popularity of theaters that existed in his time.
• The fourth wall that doesn't exist and how that impacts the play.
• Conventions of the stage: soliloquies and asides, scenery that appears in the language instead of on the stage,
• Internal stage directions, visual displays of madness, and more.
• What happened to theater (and Shakespeare's works) when the Puritans took over England.