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Elizabethan experience of the Theatre

Including the commedia dell’arte

  • Large square stage—lines repeated to each side
  • Open air –no lighting
  • Noisy audience –no microphone
  • Alternative distractions available –ale sellers, bear baiting, prostitutes plying their trade, hot pie sellers etc
  • Tiered seating –upper classes in higher rows, social class distinctions
  • Few props
  • 1 penny, quite expensive, could be a day’s wage
  • few women I audience
  • no women in the cast – so love scenes????
  • The Commedia dell’arte:

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