ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -For another penny, you could have a bench seat in the lower galleries which surrounded the yard. Or for a penny or so more, you could sit more comfortably on a cushion. The most expensive seats would have been in the ‘Lord’s Rooms’.

Detailed explanation-2: -Royalty and other nobles could sit in one of two placed during performances at Globe Theater. Royalty could pay to sit on the side of the stage or they could sit in the section known as the Lord’s Rooms alone or with other nobles. This was an upper balcony seat, on a wooden chair padded with cushions.

Detailed explanation-3: -Who came to the theatres? The answer is ‘just about everyone in London society’ – generally more men than women, but all sorts of people. One visitor, in 1617, described the crowd around the stage as ‘a gang of porters and carters’. Others talked of servants and apprentices spending all their spare time there.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are ‘Gentlemen’s Rooms’ or boxes for rich and famous people and these cost a shilling. Finally the lower class citizens, or servants and apprentices, are standing in the yard or ‘pit’ in front of the stage and are known as ‘groundlings. ‘ They have only had to pay a penny.