saw one of his tasks as being 'to drill Harvard students to represent an Elizabethan audience', which involved 'grooming' them into 'fops, gallants, citizens' etc, in carefully choreographed sequences ...

Learn about theatre audiences and what the experience was ... nobles if they weren’t were actors – and only on stage. In Elizabethan times women belonged to their fathers (or their brothers ...

The Globe Theatre, for example ... exaggerated gestures so people could understand what they were saying. Elizabethan audiences loved special effects – especially gory, bloody ones!