Queen Anne's Men - Style

Style

The company acquired a reputation for playing relatively unsophisticated drama for a rowdy audience. Yet their style of drama had some surprising aspects. They were creative in terms of special effects: consider these stage directions from Heywood's The Silver Age, written for and acted by the company —

  • "Enter Pluto with a club of fire, a burning crown...and a guard of devils, all with burning weapons"
  • "Jupiter appears in his glory under a rainbow"
  • "Thunder, lightnings, Jupiter descends in his majesty, his thunderbolt burning"
  • "...fireworks all over the house."

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