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Thomas Platter, a Swiss tourist to London in 1599 had this to say:
Thus daily at two in the afternoon, London has two, sometimes three plays running in different places, competing with each other, and those which play best obtain most spectators. The playhouses are so constructed that they play on a raised platform, so that everyone has a good view. There are different galleries and places, however, where the seating is better and more comfortable and therefore more expensive. For whoever cares to stand below only pays one English penny, but if he wishes to sit he enters by another door and pays another penny, while if he desires to sit in the most comfortable seats, which are cushioned, where he not only sees everything well, but can also be seen, then he pays yet another English penny at another door. And during the performance food and drink are carried round the audience, so that for what one cares to pay one may also have refreshment. . . .
How much time then they may merrily spend daily at the play everyone knows who has ever seen them play or act.
One of the plays Mr. Platter went to see was Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
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What did the stage look like at shakespeares plays?
It was pretty bare and unencumbered by scenery. Modern productions of the plays tend to look the same way.
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