LESSON ONE
Sentence Combining:
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act III by William Shakespeare
Humanities Connection: The Globe Theater
The flag is flying from the top of the O-shaped Globe Theater, just to the north of the
city, indicating that a play will be performed this afternoon. You hurry through the day, pay your
two pennies, and crowd with as many as 3,000 others into the galleries at the Globe. You have a
wooden bench seat in the second tier of the galleries and can hear the thumping of feet from the
tier above you. Down below, the rectangular stage juts out into the round "yard." At the back of
the stage is a three-story façade in which there are several windows and a balcony. From the top
of the facade waves the flag that had beckoned you to the theater early this
morning.
Around the edge of the stage are the groundlings, the spectators who paid a penny apiece
to enter the theater and stand on the ground to watch. The stage is raised to prevent eager
spectators from joining on-stage fights and battle scenes. You are glad that you had the two
pennies to pay for a gallery seat, for it looks as if it might rain on the open yard and the partially
roofed stage.
This description captures the sights, though not the sounds and smells—which would
have been considerable—of a typical day at the Globe in the 1590's. The design of the theater
was such that even the viewers in the third gallery were no more than about 50 feet from the
front of the stage. Given the height and depth of modem-day theaters, this is an astonishing fact.
The round shape and tiered structure of the theater allowed for an intimacy that contributed to the
success of the plays and to Elizabethan theater in general.
The Globe Theater burned down in 1613. The acting company rebuilt it, using a tiled roof
instead of the ill-fated thatched roof that had fed the fire. The Globe and all other London
theaters were closed in 1642 for political reasons. The Puritans who came into power just then
believed that play-going was frivolous and led to temptation and poor behavior, at best. The
Globe was then dismantled in 1644.
That was the end of the story until 1987, when construction began on a re-creation of the
Globe Theater at the original site. An American actor named Sam Wan
LESSON ONESentence Combining:The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act III by William ShakespeareHumanities Connection: The Globe Theater The flag is flying from the top of the O-shaped Globe Theater, just to the north of thecity, indicating that a play will be performed this afternoon. You hurry through the day, pay yourtwo pennies, and crowd with as many as 3,000 others into the galleries at the Globe. You have awooden bench seat in the second tier of the galleries and can hear the thumping of feet from thetier above you. Down below, the rectangular stage juts out into the round "yard." At the back ofthe stage is a three-story façade in which there are several windows and a balcony. From the topof the facade waves the flag that had beckoned you to the theater early thismorning. Around the edge of the stage are the groundlings, the spectators who paid a penny apieceto enter the theater and stand on the ground to watch. The stage is raised to prevent eagerspectators from joining on-stage fights and battle scenes. You are glad that you had the twopennies to pay for a gallery seat, for it looks as if it might rain on the open yard and the partiallyroofed stage. This description captures the sights, though not the sounds and smells—which wouldhave been considerable—of a typical day at the Globe in the 1590's. The design of the theaterwas such that even the viewers in the third gallery were no more than about 50 feet from thefront of the stage. Given the height and depth of modem-day theaters, this is an astonishing fact.
The round shape and tiered structure of the theater allowed for an intimacy that contributed to the
success of the plays and to Elizabethan theater in general.
The Globe Theater burned down in 1613. The acting company rebuilt it, using a tiled roof
instead of the ill-fated thatched roof that had fed the fire. The Globe and all other London
theaters were closed in 1642 for political reasons. The Puritans who came into power just then
believed that play-going was frivolous and led to temptation and poor behavior, at best. The
Globe was then dismantled in 1644.
That was the end of the story until 1987, when construction began on a re-creation of the
Globe Theater at the original site. An American actor named Sam Wan
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