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'Playgoing and Participation' (Audience (Playwright could not be…
'Playgoing and Participation'
Playgoing
Playgoing had to be planned
Day long activity
Long journey
Performances started at 2 in the afternoon
arrive early for good seat or for admission
Ended by twilight - in winter around 4:30 - 5
Long journey home
an involvement of 5-6 hours
Performance
Refreshments were necessary
Drinks and snacks on sale during performances
disorder
pick-pockets
objects thrown at actors
eggs
apples
potatoes
wood
bottles
18th c: armed guards posted to control crowd
scuffles
greater proximity between actors and audience
audience may talk to actors
audience members may participate in on stage fight
eye contact
Actors speaking to audience
Aside
Portions of longer soliloquies
Audience as confidant
Alternation between communication and self-communication
Audience as part of
court
army
family
assembly
Direct address
Funeral speeches by Brutus and Mark Antony in
Julius Caesar
Fools
charges the performance with energy
Production
each company did avg. 17 new plays in a year
plays seldom repeated in a week
Playwriting
A playwright like Heywood wrote 5 plays in a year; 220 plays in 40 years
Audience
across class
diverse
Playwright could not be guided by the monarch's view alone
had to seek public endorsement
engage audiences
different seating for different categories of audiences
galleries
roofed
higher entry charges
upper, middle, lower levels
yard
standing space before the stage