A theater in Shakespeare’s day was very different from today’s modern theater with its stage raised above the seated audience and curtain that separates actors from audience. The Globe and other London theaters were much more accessible with one stage projecting into the audience that stood on all three sides of the platform. Elizabethan theater goers were not as polite as today’s audiences but were often rowdy and boorish. Members of the audience threw rotten vegetables at the actors if they disliked the play! The theaters in Shakespearean England also had a curtained inner stage and an upper balcony. A trap door in the floor of the main stage allowed for the entrance of ghosts from hell. Plays were performed in the afternoon, and a flag indicated a performance. There were few sets or props and certain no technology for lighting, microphones, or other enhancements such as modern theatrical productions employ. The scene was almost entirely suggested by the dialogue. Groundlings stood “cheek by jowl” in front of the main stage, and wealthier patrons sat in seats around it. If one were a prominent nobleman, one could sit on the stage itself. All parts were performed by boys, since plays were considered to be a low type of entertainment unsuitable for women to participate in.