Elizabethan Theater

A Theater for All

During the Elizabethan Era, going to the theater was a guilty pleasure enjoyed by the upper and lower class alike.

The Elizabethan was an open-air theater with several levels of covered balconies looking over the stage.

Upper class citizens sat in the upper, covered levels while poor people stood in the pit in front of the stage.

Unfortunately, in those days, women could not have jobs, so men played all the parts.

People brought peanuts and veggies from home to eat or throw at bad actors.

Find out how and why public theaters like the Elizabethan were built for patrons of that era.