Everyone, many people could go. The royals, however, did not. If royalty wanted to see a play, they had the actors come to them.
They used their imaginations.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company. Their play is called The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)"
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He gave feedback forms for them to fill up and pass it back to him.
They used their imaginations.
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Having a bunch of amateur actors put on a play as a part of Shakespeare's play allowed Shakespeare to make fun of inept playwrights and actors which helped the audience appreciate the skill of Shakespeare and his fellow actors.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company. Their play is called The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)"
Most of them would be standing round the stage. There were galleries for a smaller number.
Shakespeare sometimes gave a prologue to his plays, foreshadowing events that would happen in the play and such. It gave the audience a hint as to what the play would be like. The plays often started with some startling event, like the appearance of witches, or a ghost, or a fight, or a riot, which would catch the audience's attention.
Actors created a connection with the audience in Shakespeare's day exactly as they do now. Actors respond to the reactions or lack of them which an audience gives. If the audience is with the actors, they will continue the rhythm and energy that established the relationship. If the audience is drifting away, the actors need to work harder to get the audience's attention and interest, by being louder, making larger gestures, adding humour and so on. This needs to be done at the beginning of a play, so Shakespeare often started his plays with something which would grab the audience's attention, like the appearance of a ghost.
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He gave feedback forms for them to fill up and pass it back to him.
I suppose Shakespeare was trying to tell his prospective audience that this was the kind of play they liked, in order to get them to buy tickets and come to the show. The secondary title of his play Twelfth Night or What You Will means about the same thing.
There is no sense writing a play that the audience would not enjoy. When a play was to be played at the public theatres, it had to have a little bit of something for everyone: some great poetry and some dirty jokes, some philosophy and some blood.