In the Elizabethan time period, acting was not an easy job. Actors had to go through strenuous training before they could receive a main role in a play. Elizabethan actors had to be skilled in dance, voice, and fencing to maintain their position on stage. Elizabethan actors had to be skilled in dance to maintain their position on stage. Dance was used to test the physical control of an actor. Normally there was a dance …showed first 75 words of 344 total…

…showed last 75 words of 344 total…but is could simply be a stunt double. In the Elizabethan time period actors had to be able to do everything. There was no such thing as computer help or body doubles. Actors had to be skilled in the arts of fencing; acrobatics, dance, voice, and memorization just to name a few. Next time you see a play or a movie on the big screen just think how easy the actors of today have it.