Like I told you the first time, they wanted to be entertained and the plays were very entertaining.
All sorts of monarchs went to see shakespeares plays including Elizabeth the first and king Edward the firstMostly men and nobles. Quick fun fact: Men were only allowed to be in Shakespeare's plays back in his day.
Shakespeares plays where watched by many but usally the poor as the veiwings were free as they were so well loved !!
the audience size of the globe theater was able to hold 1500 people. It expanded to 3000 people after a large ammount of people wanted to see the plays. The nobles and lower class people went to see these plays, royalty would have the plays come to them. The globe theater was built in Elizabethian London south bank of the river. read more at: google.ca/theglobetheater duh
It meant money and fame. If the crown liked you and approved of your plays or art that would mean that others in the nobility would come to see the plays and help pay for them. It was very important that the crown approved of you because without it an artist or writer never had a chance.
They were called "groundlings."
The rich were the ones who saw his plays.
All sorts of monarchs went to see shakespeares plays including Elizabeth the first and king Edward the firstMostly men and nobles. Quick fun fact: Men were only allowed to be in Shakespeare's plays back in his day.
Yes, certainly. Shakespeare's company was sponsored by the king, and there are records of a number of his plays being performed at court.
Just about everybody except the Puritans, who objected to the theatre and, when they came to power in England, had it banned.
Shakespeares plays where watched by many but usally the poor as the veiwings were free as they were so well loved !!
Because they are darn good plays, that's why. They are extremely entertaining, even if what you really want to see are swordfights and people having their hands cut off.
i don't see why not i think that it would wrong if girls werent aloud to be in one of William shakespeares play but call for further information and your nearest thretre thanks for the question
People have watched plays for a very long time. They are really a development of storytelling which has existed for as long as there have been people. Nowadays you see films and television drama, which is basically the same thing. Plays are more immediate than films or tv as the actors can see the audience and react to them; there is communication between the actor and audience. But people have always loved a good story, whether told or played out for them. In other words, plays are entertaining.
This is called "breaking the fourth wall". The term and the convention which it represents emerged in the nineteenth century in the plays of Ibsen, Shaw, Chekhov and their contemporaries. In this convention, the audience is to imagine that they are viewing the action through a pane of one-way glass. The set represents three walls of a room, and across the front of the stage is a fourth wall which the actors cannot see through out to the audience, but the audience can see through to the actors. For an actor to acknowledge the existence of the audience or anything outside of the play breaks this convention. Most American and British plays of the twentieth century adopt this convention, but some playwrights (Brecht, for example) rebelled against it. The fourth wall convention did not apply to Elizabethan plays, so actors could and did direct their soliloquys at the audience, and might ad lib repartee with the more vocal audience members. At Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, a modern theatre opened in 1997 which features Elizabethan stagecraft, one might well imagine an actor, hearing a passing plane, saying to the audience, "Do you hear thunder? I fear the groundlings will get a wetting."
the audience size of the globe theater was able to hold 1500 people. It expanded to 3000 people after a large ammount of people wanted to see the plays. The nobles and lower class people went to see these plays, royalty would have the plays come to them. The globe theater was built in Elizabethian London south bank of the river. read more at: google.ca/theglobetheater duh
It meant money and fame. If the crown liked you and approved of your plays or art that would mean that others in the nobility would come to see the plays and help pay for them. It was very important that the crown approved of you because without it an artist or writer never had a chance.
They were called "groundlings."