Es n.1 p. 90

The moderntheatre is all coveredand so it has got lots of lights.There are gold elegant decorations in the stands and there is an audience. The second image represents a renaissance playhouse, and so it is more small than a modern theatre and therefore it didn’t allowed more than twelve actors to appear on the stage at a time.

Es  n.6 p.92

Queen Elizabeth I loved watching plays, but these were generally performed in indoor playhouses for her pleasure. She would not have attended the plays performed at the playhouses such as the Globe. The upper-class nobles would have paid for the better seats in the ‘Lord’s rooms paying 5p for the privilege. The ‘groundlings’ were the standing members of the audience. For one penny, which was the price of a loaf of broad, they could stand in the open yard. They used to put money in a box at the theatre entrance, hence the term ‘box office’. The gentry would pay to sit in the galleries, often using cushions for comfort. Rich nobles could watch the play from a chair set on the side of the stage itself. The crowd of spectators ate and drank during the performance and freely expressed their emotions. They loved metaphor and extremes and were deeply moved by long speeches and soliloquies. Horror, macabre scenes and revenge tragedies were very popular, as well as history plays where heroic deeds, battles and weapons evoked strong feelings. People used to applaud any notable event during the play, but it was only at the end that they could be really noisy. There was often a ‘jig’, a comic song and dance story, and the company would announce the next play in the repertoire. The audience would show theirapproval or disapproval of the choice by calling-out , whistling and even throwing things.