Question

4. Where were Shakespeare plays performed? What type of people were generally in

the audience? What was special about the actors that performed the plays?

Answer 1

Answers:

1. the Globe Theatre

2. The very rich, the upper middle class, and the lower middle class

3. There were not multiple copies of the play so each actor would have their own part written out to learn. An actor’s part only contained their lines and their ‘cues’ – the last words spoken by another actor before their own.