Shakespeare’s Globe Theater was built so lots of people could see his plays. It was built in 1599 on the Thames River in the Bankside District of London, England. It was three stories tall and could hold about 3,000 people. The Gallery is where the people sat to watch the plays. The benches they sat on were very steep. Some people couldn’t pay to sit in the gallery. They were called groundlings. They only had to pay 1 penny to watch while standing in the yard. The stage was maybe 45 feet wide and 30 feet long. It was also five feet off the ground and had little trap doors. The actors hid under the stage, since it was so high, and used these trap doors for dramatic entrances. They would also make sound effects from under the stage through these
