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Most of Shakespeare's plays were performed in the Globe Theater. The theater was located in the Southwark district
of London, England. Some characteristics of Shakesperian theater and the Globe Theater are:
- The Globe consisted of the Pit, the Lords rooms, the galleries, the stage, and the offstage areas. One such example
of the offstage area is the Tiring-House, where the costumes were stored and the actors changed.
- Admission to the Theater cost between 1 penny for the pit, where the groundlings stood, and 6 pennies for the upper classes
to sit in seats on higher levels.
- In Shakespearean theater all the roles were played by men, including the female parts. Young boys played the women until
they began to shave, when they switched to the male roles.
- There were no backround scene changes in Shakespeare's time. It was understood by the viewers that if the actors exited
from one side of the stage and entered form the opposite, that the scene had changed.
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