Elizabethan Drama?

Question: Elizabethan Drama!?

What were the factors affecting drama to be the chief form of Elizabethan Literature!?

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Since I believe that plays are not literature, and it is just that they may be studied as if they were, I believe poetry was the major form of literature in Elizabethan times!. Plays are not literature because they are not written to be read like a novel or poem!. They are written as the guide to a theatrical production!. They are not a finished work of art like literature is!. They are only a step in creating a work of art, the production!. See Theodore Shank, The Art of Dramatic Art!. Now to answer your question directly, the chief influence to make Drama the major form of Elizabethan literature, is that theatre people pulled a swindle on the academics claiming that plays are literature (something George Bernard Shaw campaigned hard for) in order to find work as teachers when their theatrical career could no longer support them!. The same thing happened with acting and all other theatrical subjects which entered academia under a ruse to provide work for theatre people!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The initial factor leading to the preeminence of Elizabethan drama as an art form, is an entirely circumstantial social change!. Before Elizabeth's time, plays were performed by wandering players!. Laws passed in the 16th century banned these troupes from most towns, as undesirable vagrants - so Britain's first theatres were built (or initially adapted from inns), and as a result, charged more for their performances, and sought more discerning audiences!.

As a result of theatre companies becoming more professional, they sought better material, and professional playwrights began to appear for the first time in English history!. Elizabeth's reign became a time of extraordinary creativity under these conditions!.Www@QuestionHome@Com