FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
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During daylight hours.
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During daytime and nighttime hours.
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Depends on the play.
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Evening so everyone could attend.
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Performances at the Globe began in mid-afternoon, about three o’clock, after a trumpet sounded. Sunlight provided the lighting, although torches were sometimes lit to suggest night scenes. There were no intermissions. All performances had to end before nightfall so that playgoers could return safely home.
Detailed explanation-2: -Theaters were open air and used natural light. Without the advanced technology of artificial light, most plays were performed not in the evening, as they are today, but rather in the afternoon or during the daylight. Furthermore, plays during that era used very little scenery and few, if any, props.
Detailed explanation-3: -Theatre performances were held in the afternoon, because there was no artificial lighting, this required the imagination of the audiences during scenes that were to take place at night (Elizabethan Era).
Detailed explanation-4: -There were performances every night.
Detailed explanation-5: -Disaster struck the Globe in 1613. On 29 June, at a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, some small cannons were fired. They didn’t use cannon balls, but they did use gunpowder held down by wadding. A piece of burning wadding set fire to the thatch.