The Globe was frequented by young "bloods" and by the more disreputable portions of the community, racing men (or their equivalents of that day) "coney catchers" and the like; commonly the only women present were women of the town.

The similarity extends from the auditorium to the stage.

The Elizabethan playgoer delighted in virtuosity; in exhibitions of strength or skill from his actors; the broad sword combat in _Macbeth_, and the wrestling in _As You Like It_, were real trials of skill.

The bear in the _Winter's Tale_ was no doubt a real bear got from a bear pit, near by in the Bankside.

The comic actors especially were the very grandfathers of our music-hall stars; Tarleton and Kemp and Cowley, the chief of them, were as much popular favourites and esteemed as separate from the plays they played in as is Harry Lauder.