Show many dinner hours englishmen in queen elizabeth a time dined at 11 a tn in and shakespeare rung up the curtain at the globe theater at 1 p m the performance ending between 6 and 6 0 clock by the tim of charles 11 II dinner had advanced to 1 and the play began at 3 p in as records A century later horace walpole complained ot of dinnat dinnet balig it ag late as 4 0 clock and evening not beginning until 6 0 clock up to the middle of the last century the theaters opened at fi 6 30 dinner being pro earlier |