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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…..

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