Answer Because they stood on the ground they were called "groundlings."
There were 3 levels. The first was the floor in front of the stage. This had no seats and the tickets were sold to men only. It was very rough and loud. Often fights broke out and very few listened to the play. The next level was on the second floor. This was for couples and to some extent they watched the play. The third floor was for "working" girls who catered to the the men on the first floor. They were not there for the play. Among all of this were ladies who sold baskets of oranges.
I could be wrong, but I believe that the play was performed during the day.
There were 3 levels. The first was the floor in front of the stage. This had no seats and the tickets were sold to men only. It was very rough and loud. Often fights broke out and very few listened to the play. The next level was on the second floor. This was for couples and to some extent they watched the play. The third floor was for "working" girls who catered to the the men on the first floor. They were not there for the play. Among all of this were ladies who sold baskets of oranges.
There were 3 levels. The first was the floor in front of the stage. This had no seats and the tickets were sold to men only. It was very rough and loud. Often fights broke out and very few listened to the play. The next level was on the second floor. This was for couples and to some extent they watched the play. The third floor was for "working" girls who catered to the the men on the first floor. They were not there for the play. Among all of this were ladies who sold baskets of oranges.
groundlings are the ones not sitting in overhangs or balconies but on the floor Pit
groundlings are the ones not sitting in overhangs or balconies but on the floor Pit
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The thing that is most true for someone watching a play in Shakespeare's day has to do with gender differences. Someone watching a play at the Globe Theater in Shakespeare's day will notice that all roles are played by males. This includes female roles.
The floor area of Ericsson Globe in Stockholm is 420,000 m2 (4,500,000 sq ft).
Yes. "you watched the play" is aorist tense - a (past) completed action. "you have watched the play" is perfect tense - a present state arising from a past act (I think).
As all performances are before an audience, we presume that a number of people watched the play when it was performed for the first time. The first person we know of who watched a performance of the play was a man called Simon Forman who saw it at the Globe in 1610 or 1611--long after its first performance.
Women were not allowed to act in plays. That doesn't necessarily mean that they were "banned from the stage", however, as wealthy people sometimes watched the play from the stage.