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What did they call the audience members who stood in the pit in Shakespeare's theater?
Groundlings.
Why were cheaper seats in the pit at Shakespeare's theater?
The pit was cheaper because there were no seats in it. The audience members in the yard surrounding the thrust stage were called Groundlings or Penny Standers.
Groundlings was the term given to audience members who watched the play from the .?
groundlings are the ones not sitting in overhangs or balconies but on the floor Pit
Groundlings was the term given to audience members who watched the play from the?
groundlings are the ones not sitting in overhangs or balconies but on the floor Pit
What was the use for the pit in the globe theater?
The pit was the name of the area around the stage where those audience members who could only afford standing room tickets ("the groundlings") would stand.
What were the three levels of audience at Shakespeare theater?
The groundlings stood around the stage in The Pit. The main audience sat in the galleries around the stage. Favoured aristocrats got to sit on the stage itself. At the Globe, there was not much room for sitting on the stage. This was more popular at the Blackfriars, but at the Blackfriars even the spectators in the Pit had chairs (and paid for them!)
How were the seats for the audience arranged?
The gallery seats were arranged on the second and third tiers of the theater along the twenty-sided wall, above the heads of the groundlings or penny standers why stood in the yard or pit to watch the play.
What were the groundlings in the Globe Theatre?
they were common people who stood in the pit of the theatre
What was the pit in the Globe Theater?
the pit was the bottom of the theater(in the center of the theater) where the poor people would stand to watch the plays.
Does the theater have a pit?
uisually the pit in a theatre is where the orchestra is, traditionally it's at the bottom of the stage nearest the audience.
What do call that manhole type walk way that mechanics use to get under cars?
The pit or the grease pit.
What does pit mean to William Shakespeare?
The Pit was the nickname for the open courtyard in the center of the outdoor theater when the Groundlings or Penny-Standers stood around the stage.
