What is it like to go to the theatre in London shakespeare time?

Answer 1

The accounts I have read make it really a show. There were 3 floors to the theater. The bottom floor had no chairs so everyone was standing and very active. There were ladies that sold Oranges for people to eat. People were talking and moving around and the bottom floor was all men. On the second level were chairs and they were taken by well off people and were often couples there to watch the play. The third level was made up of the "working girls" who plied their trade while the play was going on. They also worked the area outside the theater. It was not quite in any way and I wonder how people watched the play. The lights in the theater also gave off a odor and there was no heat or air. I imagine it smelled a lot because of those things.

In Shakespeare's time, going to the theatre was a (as some people thought) a bad thing. people thought that it took people away from work, as plays were performed at two 'o' clock. they also felt that plays encouraged immorality. Another thought was that the actors were considered vagrants and rogues. Some also thought that many people could not afford to go to the theatre and so was considered biased. Though when at the theatre it was considered amazing.
in Shakespeare's theatre, the weather was very important because if the weather was bad then no one would exactly turn up only the rich people, they had balconies, and the peasants stood on the ground they were also known as ground lings , also women were not even allowed to perform on in his plays so men played the women's part too!
It probably depended on how much money you had to spend. The Globe Theater may have been typical, and the audiences were segregated according to economic status. There were three levels of seating, with highest for the richest. The poorest afficionados of theater (penny stinkers) stood rather than sat in the open arena-like area before the stage. Yet, all watched the same performance, with no retakes.