These murderers represent a certain type of commoner in England and were easily identified by the Elizabethan audience.

The ironic setting of the Tower, too, would not be lost on the Elizabethan audience.

The first mention of his name would touch the Elizabethan audience, who knew him to be the grandfather of their own queen.

There has been extensive debate about the play's portrayal of Jews and how Elizabethan audiences would have viewed it.

And did you wonder how an Elizabethan audience would take all of that?

This should have been plainly ridiculous to the Elizabethan audience.

This reminds the Elizabethan audience of both the good and the bad monarch.

With their profound belief in the supernatural, imagine how this must have moved the Elizabethan audience.

To the Elizabethan audience it always suggested change: what is on top now will inevitably fall to the bottom later--and vice versa.

The Elizabethan audience was attentive to the spoken word.