e groups - The Red Bull, The Bull Inn, The Bell, The Boar's Head, the Bell Savage and The Cross Keys, were the most popular Inns. In London, playhouses were staged outside but the indoor theatres were set in Chapels, but only the rich attended these. Shakespeare's '12th Night' was specifically written for The Globe Theatre. The audiences were very varied – ranging from the groundlings, also known as "stinkards" - they rarely washed themselves or their clothes – prostitutes, and pie sellers who all stood in a yard covered with a mixture of hazelnut shells, cinders, ash, sand and silt, right up to nobility – Elizabeth I and then King James both enjoyed the performances. In the early 1600's, at the first Globe Theatre – the "Wooden O," groundlings (commoners)paid one English penny. Two pennies entitled a person to a seat on a bench in the gallery; protected from sun
             and rain by a thatched roof made of water reed. Three pennies bought a cushioned seat close to the stage where a person could see and be seen and the most prestigious seats of all at six pennies – the Lord's rooms – were behind and above the stage. The more affluent young men would be permitted to sit ON the stage, on stools, (this allowed them to show their calves to attract the attention of the young ladies). The Elizabethan theatre was constructed along the lines as follows (i) The stage is a large open platform thrusting out into the middle of the audience, raised about five feet. The acting area was estimated to be about 40 feet wide and 30 feet deep....(ii) There is no set, as the rear of the acting area is a permanent feature, providing a number of acting levels. (iii) There is an 'inner' stage at the back of the main stage that can be curtained off. (iv) There were only two doorways at the back for entrances and exits. (v) the spectators surrounding area on three sides and is estimated tha...