Groundlings.
they were common people who stood in the pit of the theatre
The Globe Theatre held three balconies, plus an area called the Pit. The pit was lower than the stage, and only offered standing room, but it costed just a penny. In total there was room for about 3,000 people at a time.
People stood because they could not afford to buy tickets to the part of the theatre where there were seats. Instead they stood in "the pit" immediately in front of the stage and were called "groundlings" because they stood on the ground.
the yard is a pit area designed for people to stand and wacth the plays being performed.
I think it's the pit, which is infront of the stage.
they were common people who stood in the pit of the theatre
The Globe Theatre held three balconies, plus an area called the Pit. The pit was lower than the stage, and only offered standing room, but it costed just a penny. In total there was room for about 3,000 people at a time.
People stood because they could not afford to buy tickets to the part of the theatre where there were seats. Instead they stood in "the pit" immediately in front of the stage and were called "groundlings" because they stood on the ground.
the yard is a pit area designed for people to stand and wacth the plays being performed.
the cheapest place to stand was the pit.
I think it's the pit, which is infront of the stage.
In the pit, the area on the ground surrounding the stage.
The cheapest place to watch a play in the Globe Theatre was actually the "Pit," which is where most people stood. The "Pit" was the area around the stage where people could just gather around. It cost only a penny to get in to see the play, and those who could afford it sat in covered seats, but those seats were more expensive.
Yes, the new Globe Theatre, like its Elizabethan counterpart, is open to the weather and is lit by natural light. As with the original theatre, there is a roof over the stage and over the seating areas, but not over the "pit" where you can get standing room tickets.
It cost 16d, also known as 16pence to sit in the pit. But dont forget you had to stand up.
The Globe, like all elizabethan theatres, had a stage surrounded by a circle of galleries with seats. The space between the stage and the galleries, on all three sides, was called the pit, and that's where the groundlings stood. The related link shows a picture of a bunch of schoolkids standing in the Pit where the groundlings would have stood in the New Globe.
We know very little of the design of the Globe theatre, in fact no-one knows what the inside looked like at all. The inside of the modern Globe is copied from an illustration we have of the Swan theatre's stage and audience pit - this being the nearest thing we have to a contemporary illustration of an Elizabethan theatre.