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The audience was called "the audience". In Love's Labour's Lost, Moth says "An excellent device! so, if any of the audiencehiss, you may cry 'Well done, Hercules! now thou crushest the snake!'" and in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bottom says "That will ask some tears in the true performing of it: if I do it, let the audience look to their eyes."
Shakespeare was more likely to use the word in the way that we would if we talked about "an audience with the Pope"--the act of listening or an appointment in order to be listened to. The word "audience" comes from the root "audio" which means "I hear".
Sir Ian McKellen has pointed out that there is a difference between an audience, which comes to hear a play, and spectators, who come to see a spectacle. An audience must listen--it cannot just watch.
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What was the name of the audience member who couldn't afford to pay for a seat in shakespeare's time?
The standees were called groundlings.
What would the audience do if they did not like a performance in Shakespeare's time?
throw food
What kind of social class audience did Shakespeare have?
Everyone was his audience. But he did get requests from the nobles, aristocrats, and kings of that time. Shakespeare actually wrote Macbeth for King James VI of Scotland.
What is the video of the 3 comedians guys doing funny shakespeare skits to an audience?
The Reduced Shakespeare Company. Their play is called The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)"
According to the article how did the actors create a connection with the audience during Shakespeare's time?
By using the same dialect as the audience members By wearing costumes that reflected the clothing of the time
What was the name of the audience member who couldn't afford to pay for a seat in shakespeare's time?
The standees were called groundlings.
What would the audience do if they did not like a performance in Shakespeare's time?
throw food
What kind of social class audience did Shakespeare have?
Everyone was his audience. But he did get requests from the nobles, aristocrats, and kings of that time. Shakespeare actually wrote Macbeth for King James VI of Scotland.
What is the video of the 3 comedians guys doing funny shakespeare skits to an audience?
The Reduced Shakespeare Company. Their play is called The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)"
What kind of life did Shakespeare's audience lead?
Since Shakespeare's audience included almost everyone in London at the time, from the King down to the guy who cleaned out sewage lagoons, there is no one answer to this. In order to answer it, you will have to study the lifestyles of everyone living there at that time.
What did actors see when they looked out off the stage in Shakespeare's time?
Same as they do nowadays--the audience.
According to the article how did the actors create a connection with the audience during Shakespeare's time?
By using the same dialect as the audience members By wearing costumes that reflected the clothing of the time
Who was Shakespeare audience?
People obviously
What did the audience expect from Shakespeare?
nothing
What was the theater's pit called in Shakespeare's time?
a yard
What did Shakespeare's audience enjoy?
Fencing and interaction with the actors
What were Jews called in Shakespeare's time?
They were all called Steve even the ladies
