The highest-ranking guests sometimes sat on stools directly on the side of the stage Atmosphere:
Unlike the proscenium arch of Italian Renaissance theatre (ironically, the very tradition Zanichelli’s home country perfected), the English public theatres were polygonal, thrust stages surrounded by groundlings. When you download that PDF, look closely at the diagrams. Notice three distinct zones: elizabethan theatre zanichelli pdf
: Before 1576, plays were performed in inn courtyards. The first permanent theater, simply called The Theatre , was built in Shoreditch in 1576, followed by others like , , and the famous The highest-ranking guests sometimes sat on stools directly
The open area where "groundlings" (poorer spectators) stood for a low price. the English public theatres were polygonal