Elizabethan Era Theatre and Acting Notes

• inns had theaters 
• plays gave entertainment to high and low class.
• at first catered to low class male commoner
• considered a low end job
• no respect but very famous
• Women were not allowed to act
• actors did not get much money
• bigger theaters 
• see how Shakespeare caters to different classes in different characters diolouge
• poems added to credibility
• sonnets have 14 lines
• commoners were in a lower "mosh pit"
• seats on the stage for the most wealthy
• higher class were literally seated higher
• used natural light because candles would have been dangerous
• Shakespearse, Marlo, and Spencer
• Theatres doubled as a brothel and gambling house