Originally Posted by
northernsky
. . . times were when people ate,
drank,
and talked
through whole performances. They would cheer parts they liked and jeer the parts they didn't. The boxes were reserved for the rich and the floor for everybody else. . .
Sounds like the reign of Elizabeth I. The Globe was famous (infamous?) for such behavior. Shakespeare even mentioned it in Hamlet: ". . . split the ears of the groundlings . . ."
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"No man is genuinely happy, married, who has to drink worse whiskey than he used to drink when he was single." ---- H. L. Mencken
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