According to wikipedia, mirin is a rice wine similar to sake that has less alcohol--14% vs. 20%.
In Shakespeare's time, a stage wasn't just one type of space; plays had to be versatile. The same play might be produced in an outdoor playhouse, an indoor theater, a royal palaceâor, for a company on tour, the courtyard of an inn.layhouses and the Globe. In 1576, when Shakespeare was still a 12-year-old in Stratford, James Burbage built the Theatre just outside London. The Theatre was among the first playhouses in England since Roman times.
History Elizabethan theater derived from several sources. A crucial source was the mystery plays that were part of religious festivals in England and other parts of Europe during the Middle Ages.lthough most of the plays written for the Elizabethan stage have been lost, over 600 remain extant. The men (no woman, so far as is known, wrote for the stage in this era) who wrote these plays were primarily self-made men from modest backgrounds.