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2 unusual facts about English Renaissance theatre


Elizabethan stage

English Renaissance theatre, an English drama genre and the theatres in which it was performed

English Renaissance theatre

History plays dealt with more recent events, like A Larum for London which dramatizes the sack of Antwerp in 1576.


Cyrus Hoy

He wrote and published on a wide range of topics in English literature, though he is best known for his works on William Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and other figures in English Renaissance theatre.

John Shank

John Shank (also spelled Shanke or Shanks) (died January 1636) was an actor in English Renaissance theatre, a leading comedian in the King's Men during the 1620s and 1630s.


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