Sunday, March 18, 2012

How much did it cost for people to watch a performance at the Shakespeare's 'Globe Theatre' in Shakespeare's time?

It's hard to say exactly what people paid to see a work of Shakespeare in Elizabethean England.


In most works, reference is made to admission price being "a coin". However, during the time coins were minted in demonimations from a 1/4 pence to a guinea.


Suffice to say, most people at the time were not earning very much, so the admission price may have been equal to about a penny.

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