FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Audience members who had to stand at the Globe.
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People who got the worst seats at the Globe.
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Actors who were bad and were heckled at the Globe.
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Rich people who got to sit in seats at the Globe.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A groundling was a person who visited the Red Lion, The Rose, or the Globe theatres in the early 17th century. They were too poor to pay to be able to sit on one of the three levels of the theatre.
Detailed explanation-2: -Elizabethan general public or people who were not nobility were referred to as groundlings. They would pay one penny to stand in the Pit of the Globe Theater (Howard 75). The upper class spectators would pay to sit in the galleries often using cushions for comfort.
Detailed explanation-3: -The groundlings were very close to the action on stage. They could buy food and drink during the performance – pippins (apples), oranges, nuts, gingerbread and ale. But there were no toilets and the floor they stood on was probably just sand, ash or covered in nutshells.
Detailed explanation-4: -groundling • -ling • noun. 1 a : a spectator who stood in the pit of an Elizabethan theater b : a person of unsophisticated taste 2 : one that lives or works on or near the ground.
Detailed explanation-5: -Those who paid just one penny would be known as Groundlings, because they stood on the ground in what was known as “the yard, ” which is the area closest to the stage. For another penny, they could sit on a bench just behind the yard. For a penny more, they could sit more comfortably on a cushion.