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   melissa-ragan Teacher
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   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.

    

   Sources:

   http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xGlobe.html#Audiences

   http://www.georgianindex.net/banking_economics/regency_co...

   http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/performances-willia...

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   Posted by melissa-ragan on Tuesday September 1, 2009 at 8:21 PM