Change In Theater

The world has changed in many ways since Shakespear was living. That is because we have had new ideas, new inventions, and we have changed in how we do almost everything. Some of the main ways the world has changed is the way the audience acts at a play, how we are treated by our social status, and how the theaters looked and what went on inside of the theater.

In theaters in Shakespear's time the audience would be playing cards, smoking, or eating or drinking something. In our time we come to the play, we might have some candy hidden in our purse, besides that we come watch the play and have common courtesy. In the article by Douglas A. Burger he said " We don't yell insults at the actors, spit or toss orange peels on the ground." I think that is interesting that the audiences used to be disrespectful to the actors on the stage. If anyone were to do that now they would most likely get
Not different than anyone else right? That is because we don't treat people differently by their social status, the amount of money they have, or their race. "From above, the shapeseems circular with three coveredtiers of seats surrounding a central area which is open to the sky." said Douglas A. Burger. If you were to go into a theater and look to see what it looked like there will most likely be a section of seating up higher that is what the Globe Theater had, they just had a lot more sections of seating up higher. They still had more seating for the groundling which was right next to the stage. This is how Douglas A. Burger describes the groundling section. "There the "groundlings" may stand to see the action taking place on the stage, which occupies almost half of the inner space." Today if you were to go and watch a play or go to a concert the nicer seats are usually right up against the stage and those seats are the ones that cost so much. Not in Shakespear's time those were the cheapest seats to buy. They only costed one