Anyone who could afford it. And that was almost everyone. And it was not only Shakespeare's plays, but those of the dozens of playwrights at work at the same time as Shakespeare: Nashe, and Greene, and Peele, and Marlowe, and Kyd, and Middleton, and Dekker, and Heywood, and Webster, and Tourneur, and Massinger, and Chettle, and Jonson, and I'm out of breath but there are still more.
Yes, you would get soaked.
People watching Shakespeare's plays would either be sitting or standing. If the people had extra money they could pay for the privilege of sitting during the play. The poorer people would have to stand in the theater pit to watch the play but there tickets were much cheaper.
No
chips and beans
In some places you would pay a penny and stand on the ground watching the play
I first found Shakespeare's plays when I was introduced to them at school.
hamlet
england.
The Globe Theater, London.
The Puritans.
B
wrote lots of plays