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How does Shakespeare sustain the audience's interest through Act 2 of King Lear?

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Have a little read: ... 7/01/03 How does Shakespeare sustain the audience's interest through Act 2 of King Lear? In Shakespeare's day this play would have been performed in the Globe theatre. The common people had to stand for the entire performance, but the wealthy and prominent people in society could sit in the stands. If though you were really rich or the king you could have a seat on the stage. The Globe was a circular building designed to carry the sound because there were no microphones. It was made out of wood so the sound could be reflected and there were no carpets in Shakespeare's day because that would absorb the sound and the actors voice would not travel as far. The actors had to make themselves heard and they had the added distraction of someone sitting on the stage. Also the audience would throw things like walnuts, rotten fruit at the actors if they

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