On Staging Shakespeare and on Shakespear's Stage by Orson Welles ...

Questions were being asked; books were being written instead of copied; people had stopped taking Aristotle's word for it and were nosing about the world, taking it apart to see what made it run. All kinds of old established convictions were being ... Benches were built in the spectators' galleries where you sat if you had money and in veils if you were a lady, and there, with only slight elaboration over its daddy, the hotel courtyard, was the Elizabethan playhouse. ...