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Position:Home>History> Where would the very 1st Romeo & Juliet Production have taken place & where woulQuestion: Where would the very 1st Romeo & Juliet Production have taken place & where would the tickets have been sold!?!? I have done some research and the website
http://www!.william-shakespeare!.info!.!.!. says that the first production would have taken place in about 1594-1595 P!.S this is for a question for a portfoilo piece on the play for my summer exam answers in before wednesday the 14th of May if possibleWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Shakespeare, himself, was a member of Lord Chamberlain’s Men, a touring theatre company!. It is likely that his pre-1599 plays, of which Romeo and Juliet is one, were performed in a rented facility called the Blackfriar!. This was supposedly the indoor theatre where winter plays were performed because it was enclosed and patrons could be dry and warm there!. The Globe, where most of Shakespeare’s works were performed was originally an open air establishment!. So, to present entertainment year-round, the Winter Season Playbill was moved to the Blackfriar!. These theatres, both the Globe and the Blackfriar, had many incarnations!. In fact, Lord Chamberlain’s Men dismantled and moved the pieces of the Blackfriar down and across the Thames when the landlord was away on business!. On the new site, they hobbled together what became the famous Globe!. The “move” was in 1598; first plays presented in 1599 here!. Tickets!? Everyone attended theatre in Shakespeare’s Britain!. Some sources say that the common people and “undesireables” could buy crowded standing room exposed to the heat, wet and cold for one penny!. Moving up the social ladder, some patrons paid two cents for the privilege of sitting down!. A cushion for the seat cost yet another penny!. Shakespeare was the first huckster in history!. He sold his plays to those in his audiences who could read!. These books were called “penny copies”!. This designation referred to price!. His scripts, labeled octavo++ editions+, were some of the first massed produced, low-cost, portable books sold in this manner!. ______________________ +octavo was the first format developed specifically for creating portable, mass-produced, low-cost books!. ++ octavo presently used in reference to digital material!.Www@QuestionHome@Com http://answers!.scienceontheweb!.net you can get much information in this website,kindly stay a minute in website and check anyone link at a time,and you can aslo get your question answer in Google Search in this website, which has already helped me very much!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |