What limitation shaped the use of scenery in Elizabethan theatre?
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Correct answer: The absence of complex movable stage machinery
Elizabethan stages lacked complex machinery for scenery changes. As a result, language and imagination replaced visual realism, with playwrights using descriptive dialogue to establish time and place.
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