No playwright has received as much credit in English history as William Shakespeare. Most remembered for his play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare lived a life of action and competition. Though he wrote them excellently, he intended his plays to be performed in his theatre, The Globe. It was built in order that actors could make the most of the play. The Globe perfected the plays in its structure, layout, and placement. These three things combined allowed the public to notice Shakespeare’s work. Shakespeare’s theatre made his work come alive. First of all, The Globe’s structure benefited the playwright in that it gave him more options. Trap doors in both the ceiling and the floor of the stage provided for plenty of ways to place actors and props on the stage, making them look like they appeared out of thin air. The trap doors in the ceiling allowed for ‘flying’ actors and props. Such things amazed the crowd, which increased The Globe’s popularity, as compared to its competitors, The Hope and The Swan. The actors entitled the five foot tall crawlspace under the stage ‘Hell’ and above …show more content…
For one, the stage extended out into the area where the ‘stinkers’ or ‘groundlings’ sat. This meant that the actors were not limited to the normal stage area, but could walk out toward the crowd, giving the idea that the crowd was more involved in the action because they were closer to it, as opposed to simply watching a play from a distance. Another important feature of the layout of The Globe was in its seating capacity. The three stories allowed for about 3000 people to watch a single play. This is superior to the design used even today, as far as people to square meters go, because the layout ‘stacked the people.’ Shakespeare benefited from this because per performance more people could watch, and thus more money was earned, and more popularity was gained. Thus the layout of The Globe helped in Shakespeare’s