Did they have intermissions during the elizabethan era in playhouses?

Question

Did they have intermissions during the elizabethan era in playhouses?

Answer 1

Not as such... people ate and talked all through the performance and threw their litter at the actors... nice, to receive a half gnawed chicken drumstick or a maggoty apple core in the middle of reciting the balcony scene in ROmeo and Juliet.. but it happened. I wonder if the Globe should permit a return to these practises, to allow some real authentic flavour to the performance, and keep the thespians on their toes.

Answer 2

I don't know.  I'm just trying to rack up points right now.

Answer 3

Not as such, but I think they had breaks to clean the stage of rubbish thrown by the audience.

Answer 4

Although the question of intermissions during the Elizabethan period has been a source of debate, it is generally accepted that there were 4 intermissions.