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Yes they did, everything from stage blood to trap doors (even thunder and lightning). The Globe Theatre actually burnt down because they fired a cannon onstage for a performance of Henry VIII).
Though plays that featured stage effects for the purpose of spectacle (just to draw an audience) didn't really start happening until after the restoration (second half of the 17th century).
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∙ 13y agoYes, they had both. The costumes were usually just fancy contemporary clothes. Some props were swords, pikes, crowns, a skull, a donkey head, letters, books, jewels, a cauldron, a handkerchief spotted with strawberries, daggers, flowers and so on.
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∙ 13y agoCostumes of the period were pretty much what you would see the average person of the time wearing, given they did not know much about what others wore before them. However, the colors of the clothing the actors wore showed their rank in society in the play and the knowledge of what each color meant was well known. as for props most of the stages needed little props they only aided the action did not define it.
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∙ 9y agoElizabethan play productions used minor props and significant costumes to help convey particular images. Different stage levels and hatch doors were also used.
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∙ 13y agoThey used some costumes but not as elaborate as the ones they have today.
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∙ 13y agoNo, they relied mostly on costumes and props to convey the scene.
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∙ 13y agoWhen occasion demanded, yes. The costumes for kings, queens and great nobles were indeed sumptuous, being donated to the players by the wealthy when they went out of style.
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∙ 11y agothey wore big puffy tunics with very tight tights.their tunics had frils to show that they were gay and proud
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∙ 11y agoelaborate costumes
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Yes, it was the era of Queen Elizabeth's reign.
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The rules for Chess in the Elizabethan Era are the same as the rules of today.
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Only the sort that was thrown at them if the audience did not like them
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How where jails like in the Elizabethan era?
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Why were costumes important in the Elizabethan era?
Elizabethans wore clothing just like you and I. They did were Costumes, to their own dress up parties. They came as people from the bible or from Greek and Roman Myths, also people from History. So are you asking about the Clothing during the Elizabethan Time Period? Or are you asking what they would wear to a Masquerade?
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Are you in the Elizabethan era?
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Nobles didn't work in Elizabethan Era.
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1558-1603 is the Elizabethan era in England.
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what kind of jobs and occupation do Elizabethan era had
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no they didn't have bagels in the Elizabethan era. What kind of question is that?
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The Second Elizabethan Era or simply the Elizabethan Era
