To be honest, Shakespeare is not my favorite playwriter as I’m not so great at comprehending stories written in old English, and I never became attached to his stories as the subject matter of his stories are usually too creepy for me.  How is it possible for Romeo and Juliet to fall in love within a day and then day the next day?  To me, that love story just a little over the board.  However, my brother and sister LOVE Shakespeare to death.  They both had an English teacher who is very passionate about Shakespeare and thus, she passed on her passion to them.

Today, we went to Shakespeare’s Globe and it was certainly a very exciting part of the trip for my siblings.  It was a very interesting site to see for me too as I got to see how theater was done during the Elizabethian Era.  The museum at this site was incredible as it was filled with amazing facts not only about Shakespeare, but also about the Elizabethian era and the performing arts during that period.

I can definitely say that the performing arts of Elizabethian era is quite dramatically different from today’s era.  During those days, women could not participate in performing arts.  So, who played the role as a female character?  The young boys were the ones who played the female characters.  No actors had more lines to say than the others.  They all had an equal amount of work.  Some played as more than one character by wearing different masks.

I got to see clothes that were worn during the Elizabethian era, and I can certainly say that I would not have been comfortable wearing those long dresses with a big skirt frame under me.  They are also just overly elaborated .

The seats at the theater was HARD as hell!  It was like sitting on a bleacher!  I wonder how people handled sitting on those seats for such a long period of time.  Imagine watching the Hamlet play?!