Major Differences In Shakespears Time

Shakespeare's plays have been performed for almost 500 years. The times have changed, but the words and stories remain the same. Both now and back in the early sixteen hunderends some of these are very different and in other cases very different. William Shakespear was very famous playwrite and actor but mainly recongnized for his different plays and other things that he wrote. Matter of fact most of those plays are still being used and re-created for different uses. There were various differences in Shakeapears time and now many of which have been changed.
One major difference was that back in Shakespears time men played women instead of women playing women. This was because women had way less rights than they do now. One if not the most important job for a women to do was to get married create alliances between families gain more land for plantation. But some women did not like this rule so they dressed up as men just so they could do what they love acting, being on the stage. Often men would not do the best job of playing a women but they needed to have that character be filled and acted for.
Many times you see people with royalty wearing purple, purple was a very expensive dye to get so only the queen was able to wear purple. But many other families who were well of wore vibrant colors red, organge, blue, gold, yellow. But in many films you see the phesants wearing rags clothes of brown, dirty white. So back in the day if you went to a play you would more than likely see a mass of people on the ground in brown scraps for clothes. Then you would see the brighter colors up in the spots of the theater where the people paid for a seat and could be covered by a roof when and if it started to