The Lords Room Globe Theater

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The lords room globe theater.

Stand in the pit 1 penny sit in a seat 3 pence sit in a seat with a cushion 4 pence lords room 6 pence. It was also used as dressing rooms for the actors and meeting rooms for the very rich. Shakespeare s company built the globe only because it could not use the special roofed facility blackfriars theatre that james burbage the father of their leading actor richard burbage had built in 1596 for it inside the city the elder burbage had a long history as a theatrical entrepreneur in 1576 he had built the first successful amphitheatre known as the theatre in a london suburb. The globe theatre was a theatre in london associated with william shakespeare it was built in 1599 by shakespeare s playing company the lord chamberlain s men on land owned by thomas brend and inherited by his son nicholas brend and grandson sir matthew brend and was destroyed by fire on 29 june 1613.

A second globe theatre was built on the same site by june 1614 and closed by an ordinance. It cost just one penny to watch a play as long as you didn t mind standing. A stage above the main state known as the lord s rooms was primarily used by musicians in the globe theater. The issue of seating within the globe and most particularly the conspicuous position of the lords room and the gentlemen s rooms can thus been seen as related to commercial competition.

Seats and cushions to sit on cost more. The lords rooms were situated in the balconies or galleries at the back of the stage above the tiring rooms. The globe did not cater solely for the most privileged of playgoers the most extravagant of whom at the blackfriars paid as much as 6d. There were special effects such as fireworks and smoke.

Globe theatre lords rooms the globe theatre lords rooms were considered the best seats in the house.