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The word ‘groundlings’ was actually the name of a small fish with a large, gaping mouth. The area where they stood was known as ‘the pit’ or ‘the yard.’. You only paid a penny, but then you had to stand, usually uncomfortably, and often in the pouring rain, crushed against other people, to watch the play. In Shakespeare’s play ...
Shakespeare's audience would have been composed of tanners, butchers, iron-workers, millers, seamen from the ships docked in the Thames, glovers, servants, shopkeepers, wig-makers, bakers, and countless other tradesmen and their families. Ben Jonson commented on the diversity of the playgoers in his verses praising Fletcher's The Faithful ...
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Groundling. A groundling was a person who visited the Red Lion, The Rose, or the Globe theatres in the early 17th century. [1] They were too poor to pay to be able to sit on one of the three levels of the theatre. If they paid one penny (equivalent to £1 in 2023), they could stand in "the pit", also called "the yard", just below the stage, to ...
Jul 27, 2012 · It all led to me writing my senior thesis about honor and gender roles in Shakespeare’s works. LT: As you mention in your article Shakespeare wrote for the people, but other playwrights of the day such as Ben Jonson were not so accepting of the groundlings. Making a derogatory reference to them in one of his plays, Jonson refers to them as ...
Jun 5, 2014 · In celebration of the nonprofit’s 40th anniversary last month, we reached out to former Groundlings including Melissa McCarthy, Lisa Kudrow, Kristen Wiig, Kathy Griffin, Paul Reubens, and Will ...
In Shakespeare's time most spectators, known as groundlings, stood in the yard around the platform stage. Few members of Shakespeare's audience could afford to purchase seats; only the well-to-do ...
Oct 2, 2012 · The Life & Times of a Groundling. By Corrie Glanville. In nearly every depiction of Elizabethan England from Shakespeare in Love to the more recent film Anonymous, the audience of the famed Globe Theatre has been portrayed as a brawling, heaving, unwashed rabble who came to be known as “groundlings.”. According to the Oxford English ...
