When somebody didn't like the play or the actors they were very open about it - some threw rotten fruit but most just booed extremely loudly.
Audences at the Globe who didn't like the play could eat, chat, smoke, or flirt (there are references to all of these behaviours - they are even included in some of the plays - such as Dekker's 'Shoemakers Holiday').
Audiences didn't often cause trouble - unless there was something they didn't like onstage. There were riots when a company of woman players tried to perform.
Shakespearean audiences would boo the actor off the stage, throwing tomato and other rotten fruits and vegetables at them. In cases like "The Merchant of Venice" the audience hated Jews so much that when the leading man Shylock the Jew walked on the whole theatre would shout for him to walk off.
When somebody didn't like the play or the actors they were very open about it - some threw rotten fruit but most just booed extremely loudly.
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Jeering in some way, very likely, but booing is much more modern and allegedly American in origin.
They would heckle the actors with catcalls and rude remarks. We get a sample of this sort of thing in Act V of A Midsummer Night's Dream, where the audience, especially Demetrius, heckle poor Peter Quince and company mercilessly, causing them sometimes to go out of character or forget their lines entirely. In extreme cases, audiences were reported to have thrown rotten food at actors in a really bad play.
they would throw rotten food at the actors, scream , curse and fight.
they would throw things at the stage.
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mrs loko
Act one, scene three of Romeo and Juliet was exciting for Elizabethan audiences. The conflict of the fight scene made it very popular among audiences.
Yes, the Elizabethans had much longer attention spans and powers of concentration than people do nowadays. Compared to the Elizabethans, all 21st century people are ADHD.
Elizabethan audiences enjoyed the plays they watched for pretty much the same reasons as people do today, which is why Elizabethan plays keep getting produced. They were probably quicker to understand what they heard than we are, and were better listeners (modern people expect a story to be shown to them, not told to them). Elizabethans particularly enjoyed wordplay that used puns and alliteration: that is why Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost was much more popular then than now. A lot of the wordplay in Much Ado is still accessible to modern audiences.
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mrs loko
Act one, scene three of Romeo and Juliet was exciting for Elizabethan audiences. The conflict of the fight scene made it very popular among audiences.
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The audience was rude and dispolite and threw chickening wings at her i know it is very sad for more info go to www.http/ allaboutelizabethanaudience.org now go there now!
Tragedy. The full title of the play is "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet". Audiences of the Elizabethan times wanted to know what they were going to watch when they went to see a play, so playwrights often put it in the title. Hope this helps :)
In an Elizabethan theatre you could sit our stand. There were no roofs on the theatres back then. There were very props sometimes they didn't have props. They were allowed to speak out to what they thought of the play sometimes they through things at the performers if they didn't like the play.
Yes, the Elizabethans had much longer attention spans and powers of concentration than people do nowadays. Compared to the Elizabethans, all 21st century people are ADHD.
Elizabethan audiences enjoyed the plays they watched for pretty much the same reasons as people do today, which is why Elizabethan plays keep getting produced. They were probably quicker to understand what they heard than we are, and were better listeners (modern people expect a story to be shown to them, not told to them). Elizabethans particularly enjoyed wordplay that used puns and alliteration: that is why Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost was much more popular then than now. A lot of the wordplay in Much Ado is still accessible to modern audiences.
You can find out by attending a play at Shakespeare's Globe in London or in another replica of an Elizabethan theatre.
Elizabethan Theatres were open roofed play houses built in the Renaissance
No, Shakespeare followed the Elizabethan structure of a FIVE act play. Almost all Elizabethan plays are divided into five acts, including Shakespeare's.