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In Shakespeare’s day, as people came into the theatre or climbed the steps to their seats, audiences had to put their money in a box. So the place where audiences pay became known as the box office.
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In this fact sheet, students will learn about who went to the theatre, how much they paid and more, providing a good background for understanding Shakespeare's audience. A printable version of this Fact Sheet is available in the downloads section below.
Learn about theatre audiences and what the experience was like for them as well as social attitudes, including what it was like to be a woman in Shakespeare’s day.
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- How Was Seeing A Play in Shakespeare’s Time Different from Seeing A Play Today?
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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...
Abstract. This article examines how audiences in Shakespeare's time responded to the plays they saw, and how can one assess the impact, noting that early modern ideas about audiences' reactions to plays can illuminate both the plays themselves and playwrights' goals in composing them.
Shakespeare's audience was far more boisterous than are patrons of the theatre today. They were loud and hot-tempered and as interested in the happenings off stage as on. One of Shakespeare's contemporaries noted that "you will see such heaving and shoving, such itching and shouldering to sit by the women, such care for their garments that they be not trod on . . . such toying, such smiling ...
5. Apr. 2021 · The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1483 - 1544. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316137062.P21. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Print publication year: 2016. Access options. Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below.
