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Essay Instructions: This paper needs to discuss how the theater impacted and influenced society during the Elizabethan age. How did the theater bring the different classes of people together and to what extent did this happen?? This is a four page paper that needs to have a well developed and centralized thesis.

END NOTES MUST BE USED, numbered 1 up, along with a bibliography. Do not repeat numbers.

Direct quotations should be used sparingly and equal no more than 10% of the final document.

At least two sources need to be primary

Sources listed below are not required but may be relevant. I have gone through them myself:

1- Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England by Alison Sim, The History Press, 2009. Chapter 8: The Theatre

2- The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theater by Louis Montrose

3- New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 by Susan Brigden, Chapter 10: The Theater of God's Judgment

Essay Instructions: Describe the general structure and arrangement of Elizabethan theater and give examples of how variuos structures of the theater were used in a drama. Explain the frequent use of the chorus and the epilogue in elizabethan drama.