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Most of the poorer audience members, referred to as groundlings, would pay one penny (which was almost an entire day's wage) to stand in front of the stage, while the richer patrons would sit in the covered galleries, paying as much as half a crown each for their seats.
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.
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As Shakespeare stood on the stage, looking down at the penny-stinkers, they may have looked to him like gaping fish as they stared open-mouthed, up at him, thus the metaphor – the word ‘groundling’ – in Hamlet’s advice to the actors. Groundlings watching a performance at Shakespeare’s globe.
Jul 27, 2012 · Making a derogatory reference to them in one of his plays, Jonson refers to them as offering “popular applause / or foamy praise, that drops from common jaws.” What do you think accounted for these varying impressions of the groundlings? MH: I think the groundlings may have been caught up in a little bit of class warfare. Going to the ...
Oct 2, 2012 · 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.”
The 20th Century Rebuilding of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. In London Shakespeare circles there is a name almost as famous as that of William Shakespeare himself. It is that of Sam Wanamaker, an American actor whose vision almost matched Shakespeare’s.
The lower middle class paid a penny for admittance to the yard (like the yard outside a school building), where they stood on the ground, with the stage more or less at eye level—these spectators were called groundlings.
