Londra nella letteratura inglese The theatre in those days was profit driven as much as printing: it had patrons and sponsors but most of all it relied on people buying tickets. And people – Londoners – loved the theatre in a way that we find difficult to visualize: in the 1660s, for instance, Pepys could go to theatre every day, and sometimes twice a day, and so could his friends.

Londra nella letteratura inglese

Londra nella letteratura inglese THE THEATRE

Londra nella letteratura inglese IL GLOBE THEATRE

Londra nella letteratura inglese THE GLOBE

Londra nella letteratura inglese THE GLOBE

Londra nella letteratura inglese The Elizabethan theatre was different from today elegant hall: the stage was rather in the centre, people were eating, drinking…and rioting. Like today in a rock concert or a football match, we had the theatre (meaning what was being performed on stage) and a second theatre – the performance given by the audience.

Londra nella letteratura inglese THE BLACKFRIARS

Londra nella letteratura inglese Elizabethan theatres normally performed six different plays in their six day week. In a typical season Henslowe’s Company performed thirty-eight different plays, twenty-one of which were entirely new and seventeen of which had been performed in previous years.