In the Globe Theatre, when the audience liked the play they clapped and cheered unlike when they disliked the play, when they would throw things at the stage.
It depends which audience you are talking about. Different audiences react differently to the same production, never mind different productions of a play.
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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.
Observing the audience helps you understand the relationship between the audience and performers because, the way the people react to the actors shows their respect for them.
An audience may react to Wilde's presentation of Sir Robert Chiltern in the play with surprise and shock.
It depends which audience you are talking about. Different audiences react differently to the same production, never mind different productions of a play.
The audience would identify with the hero.
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Johnson liked to play checkers.
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they liked the idea of the French Revolution and it helped them.
i don't know but what if he liked it
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.
He knows how the audience will react and clearly he likes it.
Observing the audience helps you understand the relationship between the audience and performers because, the way the people react to the actors shows their respect for them.
Puck appears at the very end of the play, but he is not reacting to anything. He has a long speech telling the audience how dark and spooky the night is and how that's when the fairies, including himself, "frolic". Then Oberon and Titania have speeches and Puck has the last speech in the play which is again addressed to the audience and is what is called an Epilogue. This particular epilogue is very apologetic, asking the audience's pardon for putting on such a terrible play, and promising to fix its faults in time. The last line reaffirms this promise while asking the audience to applaud. "Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin will restore amends."