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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 ...
And in the pauses of the comedy food and drink are carried round amongst the people and one can thus refresh himself at his own cost." ( Diary of Thomas Platter) 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Shakespeare’s audience for his outdoor plays was the very rich, the upper middle class, and the lower middle class. 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. The rich paid...
To get an idea of the cost of a ticket in today’s terms, consider that the average blue collar worker earned five to six pennies a day; bread for his midday meal cost a penny, ale cost another penny, and if he were lucky enough to have chicken for dinner, it cost two pennies. His rent was often a shilling (twelve pennies) a week, so there wasn’t mu...
Shakespeare’s audience was perhaps not as well behaved as you are. Since the play was so long, people would leave their seats and go looking for food to eat and ale to drink during the performance, or perhaps go visit with their friends. Some playgoers, especially those who had saved up money to come and see the play, were extremely annoyed if they...
Today, you have a lot of entertainment to choose from, not including the ones you provide yourselves, such as sports or putting on your own shows. Today’s audiences can choose television, movies, or stage shows, and there is a different kind of behavior that is right for each one. Television audiences are the most casual; they don’t have to dress u...
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 ...
effective and sometimes results in the I divided this groundling approach into. students' developing a negative attitude three parts: (1) the spectacle of the toward literature. groundlings; (2) the reactions of the This rather forbidding image of Shake- groundlings to Shakespeare's plays; and, speare may be at least partly the result of (3 ...
