Elizabethan theatre was a truly popular entertainment, drawing audiences from all social classes. The PDF would detail:
: Women were legally forbidden from acting. Young boys played all female roles.
Wealthy patrons paid higher fees to sit in sheltered, tiered wooden galleries. Poorer spectators, known as "groundlings," paid a single penny to stand in the open yard around the stage, exposed to the weather.
Action moved rapidly from one location to another without pauses for set changes.
Elizabethan theatre was a truly popular entertainment, drawing audiences from all social classes. The PDF would detail:
: Women were legally forbidden from acting. Young boys played all female roles.
Wealthy patrons paid higher fees to sit in sheltered, tiered wooden galleries. Poorer spectators, known as "groundlings," paid a single penny to stand in the open yard around the stage, exposed to the weather.
Action moved rapidly from one location to another without pauses for set changes.
