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=Staging= ====When reading a play It is important to think about how it would look on a stage. When Shakespeare wrote this play, before 1594, he would have done so in order for it to be performed at a theatre such as the Globe. Below is a picture of what the globe theatre would have looked like. If you click on the link to the right you can see what the rebuilt globe looks like. Take the virtual tour by clicking on the link. When it was staged there would have been people drinking, eating, holding conversations, calling out things and sometimes even throwing things.====

While film versions of plays give more realism, it is important to remember that the audience is meant to imagine what things in the play would have looked like. Films versions, while exeptionally good defeat this largely and give too much information.