ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Globe theatre had the following EXCEPT:
A
Gentlemen’s rooms
B
Musician’s gallery
C
Electric lighting
D
Trap doors in the stage floor
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Globe was an open-air theater featuring stadium seating. While the seats are covered, the top of the theater is open much like in a modern sporting arena; in Shakespeare’s time, plays were lit by sunlight.

Detailed explanation-2: -No One Dimmed the Lights Despite not having electricity, the Elizabethan playwrights were especially good at using the one source of light they had available to them: The sun.

Detailed explanation-3: -Globe Theatre, famous London theatre in which after 1599 the plays of William Shakespeare were performed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pit. area located around the stage; no seating, standing room only; filled with commoners called “groundlings", who paid one penny to watch play; cheapest part of theater; structure projected halfway into the “yard" Lord’s Room. Trap Door.

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