Discussions in lesson Part 2

In the sixteenth century plays were of course much different than they are now. Female parts weren't given and if there was a female role, teenage boys would have to play it mainly because their voiced hadn't been broken yet. They were only able to rehearse for a few hours before the play actually happened so this meant that they were told to just get on with line learning then on the day of the performance that's when they were told how and where to come off the stage etc.
Plays weren't performed for people's entertainment but more to be heard and to be seen and that was the main objective of performances back then.
Last but not least, in most playhouses and Inns they would have upstage doors where the good characters would enter from so the audience know if they are good and downstage doors for the bad characters to let the audience know if they are a bad character. This was mostly performed on a thrusted stage.