Read the text about the 16th century theatre and match the questions below with the paragraphs (A-D) of the text. There is one extra question.

The public theatre of the sixteenth century differed in many important ways from the modern theatre. Let's discover what exactly were its main characteristics.

A. In the earlier period the theatre was open to the sky, and without electric lighting, so the plays had to be performed in the daylight. The stage was a raised platform, with a hollow at the back supported by pillars and covered with a roof. On the top of this roofed hollow was a tower, from which a trumpeter could announce the beginning of a play, and from which a flag could indicate that a play was in progress.

B. There was no curtain, and the main platform could be surrounded on three sides by the audience. A few privileged persons were allowed on the stage itself. So, Hamlet of the sixteenth century did not peer out from his lighted stage, which looked like a picture-frame, into a dark auditorium, as it is habitual nowadays, but stood in the light of day, on the raised platform, and delivered his soliloquies surrounded by the audience.

C. As the result, scenery and other decorations of the stage were impossible. The actor with his words had to create the atmosphere in which the play was to live. Elaborate and expensive costumes gave colour to the more or less empty background of the scene.

D. At the back of this main stage was a background, with a door at each side, from which actors could enter, and also a small room with curtains, in which an action could be "discovered". The auditorium was oval in shape, and the ordinary spectators stood in this space, except for the part occupied by the raised platform of the stage. Around the theatre were galleries, in which spectators could sit, and one of these galleries passed over the back of the stage.

In which paragraph does the author tell us...
1) how an actor of the past could enter the 'stage'?
2) about the difference between the theatre stage of the past and the modern one?
3) about the lighting in the 16th century theatre?
4) where an orchestra was located?
5) about possible ornamentations in the 16th century theatre?

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