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CHAPTER FIVE. THE STAGING

[1] Ronald Watkins, _On Producing Shakespeare_ (New York, 1950), p. 104.

[2] Summerson, pp. 30-51. See especially the plans of Wollaton Hall, p. 34; Hardwick Hall, p. 36; and Charlton House, p. 48.

[3] The determination upon the figure of more than five characters composing a group scene is not arbitrary. Five actors can function on such a stage as the Globe without encountering problems of covering each other or vying for attention. Furthermore, Shakespearean scenes jump from those with five characters to those with appreciably more. Exceptions are noted in the text of the chapter, especially in the discussion of category two of the group scenes.

[4] A. H. Thorndike, _Shakespeare’s Theater_ (New York, 1916), p. 83. Chambers expresses a similar but less sweeping version of this view in _Elizabethan Stage_, III, p. 86.

[5] Alfred Harbage, _Theatre for Shakespeare_ (Toronto, 1955) pp. 31 ff., estimates that in the 1,463 scenes of the 86 plays produced in the popular theater between 1576 and 1608, only 90, or slightly more than 6 per cent of the scenes require “the use of a curtained recess or equivalent stage enclosure.”

[6] Sir Mark Hunter, “Act- and Scene-Division in the Plays of Shakespeare,” _R.E.S._, II (1926), 296 ff. J. Dover Wilson, writing shortly afterward, concurred in this definition. “Act- and Scene-Division in the Plays of Shakespeare: A Rejoinder to Sir Mark Hunter,” _R.E.S._, III (1927), 385.

[7] C. M. Haines, “The ‘Law of Re-entry,’” _R.E.S._, I (1925), 449-451.

[8] W. W. Greg, _Two Elizabethan Stage Abridgements_, pp. 32-33.

[9] The difference between the figure of 339 entrances and 644 entrances and exits results from a difference in dividing scenes in the plays. For the purpose of considering split entrances and exits, I thought it best to eliminate any instances where it was even probable that a scene continued, as in _Hamlet_, from III, iv, to IV, i.

[10] A. C. Sprague, _Shakespeare and the Audience_ (Cambridge, Mass., 1935), p. 66.

[11] Examples occur in _True Tragedy of Richard III_, 475-477, 581 ff.; _Love and Fortune_, 1370 f., _Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes_, 828, 852 f., and _Cambises_, 127 ff., 602 ff.

[12] Sprague, pp. 67-68.

[13] Warren Smith, “The Third Type of Aside in Shakespeare,” _M.L.N._, LXIV (1949), 510.

[14] There are five speeches which may or may not be asides. These are not included. _Macbeth_, I, iii, 116-117; V, iii, 20-28; _Lear_, I, iv, 244-245, 251, 255-256; IV, ii, 83-87; _Hamlet_, III, ii, 191. Four additional speeches are written so that the character either speaks loudly enough for the sound but not the sense to be overheard or fears being overheard. _Caesar_, II, iv, 39-43; _Twelfth Night_, III, iv, 1-4; _Othello_, IV, i, 238-249; _Antony and Cleopatra_, III, vii, 6-10.

[15] _Coriolanus_, II, i, shows the same characteristics. Brutus and Sicinius who have been talking to Menenius step aside, according to the stage direction (106), when the Roman ladies enter. Shortly after they do so, the triumphal procession for Coriolanus enters, then moves on to the Capitol. Upon this exit Brutus and Sicinius, according to the Folio, “enter” (220 ff.) conversing about what they have seen. Apparently they had gone off and yet they are aware of what has taken place. The circumstances fit the conditions of the observation scene that I have been describing.

[16] Paul V. Kreider, _Repetition in Shakespeare’s Plays_ (Princeton, 1941), Chapter One, “The Mechanics of Disguise”; M. C. Bradbrook, “Shakespeare and the Use of Disguise in Elizabethan Drama,” _Essays in Criticism_, II (1952), pp. 159-168; Victor O. Freeburg, _Disguise Plots in Elizabethan Drama_ (New York, 1915).

[17] _Twelfth Night_, IV, ii, 69-70. Maria. “Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and gown. He sees thee not.”

[18] _Julius Caesar_, IV, iii, 267-308; _Macbeth_, III, iv, 38-73, 93-107; _Hamlet_, I, i, 18-69, 126-175; I, iv, 38-91; I, v, 1-113; III, iv, 102-136. From this list I exclude the show of kings in _Macbeth_, IV, i. The apparitions do not pass over the stage immediately, but assemble upon it until Banquo’s ghost “points at them for his.” The lines that follow being of doubtful authenticity, they offer no assistance in determining how the apparitions depart, though nothing in the text conflicts with the conventional manner of staging ghost scenes.

[19] W. J. Lawrence, _Pre-Restoration Stage Studies_ (Cambridge, 1927), p. 106.

[20] _A Warning for Fair Women_, Sig. E3^v. In the midst of a dumb show which takes place on the platform, the following direction occurs: “Chastitie, with her haire disheveled, and taking mistres Sanders by the hand, brings her to her husbands picture hanging on the wall, and pointing to the tree [above the center trap] seemes to tell her, that that is the tree so rashly cut downe.”

[21] In the Folio Edgar speaks the final lines, but in this respect the Quarto follows general usage. Of the other fourteen Shakespearean Globe plays, the ranking figure definitely speaks the final lines in eleven of them (_All’s Well_, King; _Measure for Measure_, Duke; _As You Like It_, Duke; _Twelfth Night_, Duke; _Coriolanus_, Aufidius; _Timon_, Alcibiades; _Macbeth_, Malcolm; _Hamlet_, Fortinbras; _Othello_, Lodovico; _Antony and Cleopatra_, Caesar; _Pericles_, Pericles). The other three plays present special instances. _The Merry Wives of Windsor_ has no ranking figure, but it is appropriate for Ford to conclude the action. _Julius Caesar_ apparently has two ranking figures, Antony and Octavius. But the fact that Octavius speaks last points to his triumph in _Antony and Cleopatra_. Pandarus concludes _Troilus and Cressida_. This play, as I have shown, has a unique structure.

INDEX TO THE GLOBE PLAYS

_A Larum for London_, dating of, xiii; dramaturgic practice in, 30, 35, 43-44; properties in, 224, 225; stage, use of, 93; staging in, 188; theme, 60-61

_All’s Well That Ends Well_, 15, 136, 229; character types in, 148; dating of, xi; dramaturgic practice in, 30, 36-37, 143; localization, 67, 220; narrative pattern in, 51; properties in, 75, 77, 221, 222; stage, use of, 211-212; staging, 172, 173, 179, 187, 196, 204, 205, 208-209, 211

_Antony and Cleopatra_, 15, 134, 229; character types in, 149, 152, 153; dating of, xi; dramaturgic practice in, 26, 32-33, 38, 42, 47, 59, 143, 154; localization, 66-67, 220; narrative pattern in, 53; opening action, 34; properties in, 75-76, 78-79, 221, 222; stage, use of, 92; staging, 166-167, 170-171, 173, 184, 195, 205, 206, 208, 212; staging of IV, xv, 230-231

_As You Like It_, 229; character types in, 148, 150, 152; dating of, xi-xii; dramaturgic practice in, 37-39, 54, 59, 137; exit lines, 107; localization, 67, 73, 220; narrative pattern in, 53; opening action, 34; properties in, 75, 221, 222; stage, use of, 94, 211-212; staging, 159-160, 167, 171-172, 180, 184, 195, 198, 208-212, 226

Burbage’s roles in, 1, 134, 136

Character types, 148-154

_Coriolanus_, 229; character types in, 148, 149, 152; dating of, xi; dramaturgic practice in, 37, 42, 207; localization, 64, 66, 220; narrative pattern in, 49-50; properties in, 77, 221; staging, 169, 182, 204, 205, 206, 226

_Cromwell, Thomas Lord._ See _Thomas Lord Cromwell_.

Dating of the plays, x-xiv

_Devil’s Charter, The_, dating of, xiii; dramaturgic practice in, 35; properties in, 77, 79, 81, 95, 223, 224, 225; stage, use of, 82-85, 88, 90, 92-93, 185; staging, 164-165, 185, 188, 195, 200-201, 204, 227; theme, 61

Dramaturgic practice: causation in, 32-33, 111, 143, 154; climactic plateau (climax) in, 39-44, 55; contrast in, 59-60; distancing of action, 147; finale in, form of (_see also_ staging of finale), 35-39; in group scenes, 137; liaison between scenes, 45-47; narrative development in, 30, 34-35, 38-39; scene structure in, 54-57; split structure in, 43-44; temporal illusion in, 157-158

_Every Man Out of His Humour_, chorus, use of, 25-26; dating of, xiii; dramaturgic practice in, 30, 35-36, 147; localization, 68; “mirror image,” 28; properties in, 223, 224; stage, use of, 87; staging, 172-173; theme, 61

Exit lines, 107

_Fair Maid of Bristow_, character type in, 152; dating of, xiii; dramaturgic practice in, 35-37, 59; narrative pattern in, 51-53; properties in, 79-80, 223, 224, 230; staging, 188, 198, 227-228

Formal scenes, 229

_Hamlet_, xii, 1, 58, 118, 121, 132, 135, 136, 145, 156, 229; character types in, 148-150, 154; dating of, x; dramatic history of, 18; dramaturgic practice in, 38, 40-42, 46-47, 54, 55, 59, 137; entrance pattern, 73; localization, 64-67, 220; narrative pattern in, 39, 49-50; opening action, 34; properties in, 75, 78, 79, 221, 222; stage, use of, 88, 92-93, 194-195, 201-202; staging, 171, 181, 183-185, 187, 192, 193-195, 200-203, 205, 208-209, 212

_Julius Caesar_, 229; character types in, 148, 153; dating of, x; dramaturgic practice in, 33, 38, 42, 54, 57, 59, 158, 207; localization, 64, 66, 220; narrative pattern in, 50; opening action, 34; properties in, 74, 79, 221, 222; spatial illusion, 164; stage, use of, 92; staging, 163-164, 169, 172, 175, 178, 180, 185, 186-187, 203-204, 205-206, 208-210, 212, 227; staging of, viii, 230

_Larum for London, A._ See _A Larum for London_

_Lear, King_, 1, 15, 135, 136, 229; character types in, 148-151, 153; dating of, xi; dramaturgic practice in, 30, 32-35, 38-39, 41-43, 55, 56, 60, 137, 157-158; localization, 73, 220; narrative pattern in, 51, 53; opening action, 34; properties in, 77, 78, 221, 222; stage, use of, 85, 87, 227; staging, 159, 170, 180-181, 198, 200, 205, 208, 210-211

Localization of action, 64-67, 73, 220; through chorus, 68; through identification of stage doors with place, 72-73

_London Prodigal, The_, 1; character type in, 152; dating of, xiii; dramaturgic practice in, 36, 44; property in, 223; staging in, 175, 199, 227

_Macbeth_, 229; dating of, xi; dramaturgic practice in, 32, 38-39, 42, 57, 59; localization, 64-65, 220; narrative pattern in, 49; opening action, 34; premiere of, 23; properties in, 76, 77, 78, 221, 222; stage, use of, 70, 93; staging, 170, 183-185, 187, 192, 203, 206, 209; theme, 61

_Malcontent, The_, 96, 223; dating of, xiv; disguise in, 226

_Measure for Measure_, 15, 136, 229; character types in, 148, 150, 153; dating of, xi; dramaturgic practice in, 32, 36-37, 39, 111, 154, 207; localization, 220; properties in, 78, 221; staging, 170, 175, 179, 184, 187, 194-195, 198, 208, 210-212, 226

_Merry Devil of Edmonton, The_, character types in, 150; dating of, xiii; dramaturgic practice in, 37; properties in, 74, 223, 224; stage, use of, 71; staging, 188, 227

_Merry Wives of Windsor, The_, 135, 136, 229; character types in, 150; dating of, xii; dramaturgic practice in, 38, 45-46, 147; localization, 72, 220; narrative pattern in, 51; premiere of, 23; property in, 222; stage, use of, 89; staging, 171, 186, 190, 208, 210, 212, 227

_Miseries of Enforced Marriage_, dating of, xiii; dramaturgic practice in, 37; properties in, 223, 224; stage, use of, 90-92, 94; staging in, 163-164, 166, 175, 227

Narrative patterns in, episodic form, 48-51; “mirror” form, 51-53; “river” form, 50-51

Opening action in, 34

_Othello_, 136, 229; character types in, 149; dating of, xi; dramaturgic practice in, 32-33, 37-39, 42, 46, 111, 143, 157; localization, 66-67, 73, 220; properties in, 77, 210, 221; spatial illusion in, 161-162; stage, use of, 85-88, 196; staging, 171, 178, 180, 186, 187, 189, 196, 208, 210, 227

_Pericles_, 15, 229; character types in, 153; dating of, xi; dramaturgic practice in, 38; localization, 68, 220; properties in, 75, 81, 221, 222; spatial illusion, 160-162; stage, use of, 70, 85-88, 94; staging, 172, 184, 190, 204, 205, 226-227

Premieres of, 23

Properties in, complete list of, 221-225; introduction of, 75-76; types: bed, 78-79, 82-83, 86; chair, 78, 83; chair for invalid, 77; miscellaneous, 74-75; scaffold, 79-80; sedan chair, 77; state, 78; stools, 77-78, 82-83; table, 76-77; tent, 81, 95; tomb, 70, 81

_Revenger’s Tragedy, The_, 58; dating of, xiii; disguise in, 198, 228; dramaturgic practice in, 44, 56-57; narrative pattern in, 51; properties in, 223, 224, 225

_Satiromastix_, 223; dating of, xiii; properties in, 74

_Sejanus_, 58; dating of, xiii; dramaturgic practice in, 37, 44; narrative pattern in, 49; properties in, 223, 224

Simultaneous setting, 159-160

Spatial illusion in, 160-162, 164

Stage, use of: above, 89-92, 230-231; doors, 70-71; enclosure, 82-88, 185, 194-196, 211-212; heavens, 94; stage posts, 94; trap, 92-93, 201-202

Staging, of asides, 162, 183, 186-192; continuity, 163-164, 175; of disguises, 198-200, 226-228; of entrances, 178-182; of farewell scenes, 204-205; of finales, 208-212; of focus, 172-173; of ghost scenes, 200-204; of greeting scenes, 204; of group scenes, 169-173; of messenger scenes, 205-206; of observation scenes, 183, 193-196; of processions, 172; of soliloquies, 183-186; symmetry, 165-168

Theme in, 60-61

_Thomas Lord Cromwell_, dating of, xiii; dramaturgic practice in, 37, 44; narrative pattern in, 48; properties in, 223, 224; stage, use of, 185; staging, 185, 227

_Timon of Athens_, 229; dating of, xi; dramaturgic practice in, 37, 39; localization, 64, 220; opening action, 34; properties in, 81, 221, 222; stage, use of, 85, 87; staging, 184, 189, 196, 204, 205, 209, 212

_Troilus and Cressida_, 15, 229; character types in, 150; dating of, xi; dramaturgic practice in, 35, 37, 42; localization in, 66-67, 72-73, 220; narrative pattern in, 53; premiere of, 23; properties in, 79, 81, 222, 230; staging, 170, 172, 175, 184, 190-192, 204, 206, 208

_Twelfth Night_, viii, 14, 229; character types in, 149-150; dating of, x; dramaturgic practice in, 36-37, 39, 42, 45, 54-55, 137, 154; exit lines, 107; localization, 72, 220; narrative pattern in, 50-51; premiere of, 23; property in, 222; spatial illusion, 164; stage, use of, 196, 212; staging, 168-169, 173, 196, 198-200, 208, 210-212, 226

_Volpone_, 135; dating of, xiii; disguise in, 228; dramaturgic practice in, 37; properties in, 77, 80, 223, 224, 230; stage, use of, 84, 87

_Yorkshire Tragedy, A_, 1; character type in, 152; dating of, xiii; property in, 77, 223; stage, use of, 86, 89-90

GENERAL INDEX

Above, the, 89-92, 106, 230-231

## Acting, effect of sightlines on, 128-129;

style of, 214

Adams, John C., _The Globe Playhouse_, 22, 65, 69, 71, 89-90, 92, 94, 101-102, 159, 202, 214, 230

Admiral’s men, Lord, 3-6, 9-10, 12-13, 15-18, 20, 95

Admiral-Prince’s men, 4

Aeschylus, 47

Albright, V. E., _The Shakesperian Stage_, 65, 214

Alexander, Peter, _Shakespeare’s Life and Art_, xii

Alleyn, Edward, vii, x, 9, 12, 131

_Annals of the English Drama_ (Harbage), xi, xii

_Antigone_ (Sophocles), 31, 59

_Arcadian Rhetorike, The_ (Fraunce), 114-117, 119

Archer, William, 65

Aristotle, _Poetics_, 29, 31-32, 39, 49, 58

Armin, Robert, 123, 133, 134

_Art of Rhetorique, The_ (T. Wilson), 114-115, 117, 119

_Arte of English Poesie, The_ (Puttenham), 28-29

_As Merry As May Be_, 20

Asides, staging of, 162, 183, 186-192

Bacon, Sir Francis, 120, 140-143, 146

Baldwin, Thomas W., _The Organization and Personnel of the Shakespearean Company_, 22, 128, 133-136; _Shakespeare’s Five-Act Structure_, 26, 29, 40

_Barnardo and Fiametta_, 7, 11

Barnes, Barnabe, xiii, 82, 164. See also _The Devil’s Charter_

_Battle of Alcazar, The_ (Peele), 147, 176-177, 179

Beaumont, Francis, ix

Beds, use of, 78-79, 82-83, 86, 210

Bentley, Gerald E., ix, 14

_Black Book_ (T. M.’s), xiii

Blackfriars Theatre, vii, ix, x, xii, 13-14, 21, 24, 71, 94, 133, 210

_Blind Beggar of Alexandria_, 11

Boas, F. S., xiv

Booth, Edwin, 132

_Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le_, 112

Boy actors, 134

Bradbrook, Muriel C., _Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy_, 26, 30-31, 51, 58

Bright, Timothy, _A Treatise of Melancholie_, 139, 143-144

Brown, John R., 111

_Brute_, 10

Bryan, George, 124

Bulwer, John, _Chirologia_ and _Chironomia_, 114

Burbage, James, vii-viii, 105, 122

Burbage, Richard, x, 1, 4, 18, 96, 123, 133-134, 136

_Cambises_, 121, 125, 127

Campbell, Lily B., _Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes_, 139, 141

Campbell, Oscar J., xii

Castiglione, Baldassare, _The Courtier_, 117

_Catastrophe_, 26, 39

Cecil, Sir Robert, 18

_Certain Small Workes_ (Daniel), xi

Chairs, use of, 77-78, 83

Chamberlain-King’s men, vii, xiii, 4, 22. _See also_ Chamberlain’s men, Globe company, and King’s men

_Chamberlain’s men, Lord_, viii, xi, xiii, 3-5, 13-14, 18-19, 93, 95, 113, 124, 130. _See also_ Chamberlain-King’s men, Globe company, and King’s men

Chambers, E. K., 65; _The Elizabethan Stage_, xiii, 9, 12, 133, 158, 174, 219; _William Shakespeare_, x-xii

Chapman, George, 25

_Character Problems in Shakespeare’s Plays_ (Schücking), 45, 47

Character types, 148-154

Charles I, King, 21

Charlton House, 167

Charron, Pierre, 143

Children of Paul’s, xiii

Children of the Queen’s Revels, ix, xiv, 3, 96, 133

_Chinon of England_, 11

_Chirologia_ and _Chironomia_ (Bulwer), 114

_Chronicle History of the London Stage, A_ (F. G. Fleay), 13

Cicero, 25

_Cleopatra_ (Daniel), xi

Climactic plateau (climax), 39-44, 55

Coeffeteau, F. N., _A Table of Humane Passions_, 143

Commedia dell’arte, 112-113, 129, 148, 215

Condell, Henry, 96, 123, 133

Cooke, Alexander, 123, 133

Cope, Sir Walter, 18-19

Cornwallis, Sir William, 143

Court, performances at, xi, xiii, 3-4, 15, 19-21, 23, 218-219

_Courtier, The_ (Castiglione), 117

Cowley, Robert, 123, 133-134

_Crack Me This Nutte_, 7, 11

Craig, Hardin, 30; _The Enchanted Glass_, 138-139, 145

Curtain, the, viii, ix

_Cymbeline_, xii, 94

_Cyprian Conqueror, The_, 117

_Damon and Pithias_ (R. Edwardes), 139

Daniel, Samuel, _Cleopatra_, xi

Davenant, William, _The Witts_, 21

Day, John, 20

_Defence of Poesie, The_ (Sidney), 24, 58, 66

Dekker, Thomas, 9; _Fortunatus_, 17, 19-20; _The Gull’s Hornbook_, vii, 97; _The Honest Whore I_, 145. See also _Satiromastix_

Derby’s company, 3

DeWitt, John, 94, 99-101, 169

_Diary_ (Henslowe), 3-5, 8-10, 12-17, 19-22, 217

_Directions for Speech and Style_ (Hoskins), 118

Disguise, staging of, 197-200, 226-228

_Disguises, The_, 6, 11

Doran, Madeleine, _Endeavors of Art_, 27-28, 30

Downer, Alan, 124

Downton, Thomas, 9

_Dramatic Records of Sir Henry Herbert, The_, 13, 21

Dramatic theory, Elizabethan, 24-25

Draper, John W., _The Humors and Shakespeare’s Characters_, 139, 154

Dutton, John, 122

Edmans, John, 134

_Edward I_ (Peele), 6

Edwardes, Richard, _Damon and Pithias_, 139

_Electra_ (Sophocles), 59

Elizabeth, Queen, xii, 18-20, 22, 104

_Elizabethan Acting_ (Joseph), 113-114, 132

_Elizabethan Stage, The_ (E. K. Chambers), xiii, 9, 12, 133, 158, 174, 219

_Elizabethan World Picture, The_ (Tillyard), 139

Elizabeth’s Servants, Lady, 14

Elyot, Sir Thomas, _The Governour_, 116, 119, 141

_Enchanted Glass, The_ (H. Craig), 138-139, 145

Enclosure, the, 74, 82-88, 94, 106, 175, 179, 185, 194-196, 211-212

_Endeavors of Art_ (Doran), 27-28, 30

Episodic pattern, 48-51

_Epitasis_, 26, 40

Essex, Earl of, xii, 130

_Every Man in His Humour_ (Jonson), 93

_Excellent Actor, An_, 129

_Fair Em_, 147

Farewell scenes, staging of, 204-205

_Faustus, Doctor_ (Marlowe), 14, 17

Fergusson, Francis, _The Idea of a Theater_, 29

_First Night of Twelfth Night, The_ (Hotson), x, 23

Fleay, F. G., _A Chronicle History of the London Stage_, 13

Fleetwood, William, 139

Fletcher, John, ix

Fletcher, Laurence, 123, 133

Foakes, R. A., 111, 138, 145

Forest, Louise, 138, 144

Forman, Simon, xii

_Fortunatus_ (Dekker), 17, 19-20

Fortune, the, vii, x, 4, 14, 20, 69, 94, 101-102

_Four PP._ (J. Heywood), 124

Fraunce, Abraham, _The Arcadian Rhetorike_, 114-117, 119

_Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay_ (R. Greene), 18, 20

_From Art to Theatre_ (Kernodle), 102-105, 158, 216

Fuller, Thomas, 122

Gallery over the stage, 95, 98

_Garden of Eloquence, The_ (Peacham), 118-119

Ghost scenes, staging of, 200-204

Gilburne, Samuel, 133-134

Globe company, viii, xii, 14, 16, 23, 35, 134;

## acting style of, 146, 156, 214;

actors of, 122; finances of, 22; organization of, 132, 135; repertory of, 15; role distribution in, 136; shares in, 4. _See also_ Chamberlain-King’s men

Globe playhouse, vii, ix, xii, xiii, 4-5, 13-14, 22-24, 100-101; construction of, viii-ix, 2; design of, vii, 102, 106, 108; opening date of, ix, x, xii, 133; stage of, xiv, 95, 210; sitting on stage of, 96

_Globe Playhouse, The_ (J. C. Adams), 22, 65, 69, 71, 89-90, 92, 94, 101-102, 159, 202, 214, 230

_Globe Restored, The_ (Hodges), 69, 94, 101-102, 158, 230-231

Godfrey, Walter, 101

Goffe, Robert, 123

Gorki, Maxim, _Yegor Bulichev and Others_, 61

Gosson, Stephen, _Playes Confuted in Five Actions_, 122

_Governour, The_ (Elyot), 116, 119, 141

Granville-Barker, Harley, 65, 106; _Prefaces to Shakespeare_, 41

Gray, H. D., x

Greeting scenes, staging of, 204-205

Greg, W. W., 9, 13, 131, 217

Grosse, Samuel, 133-134

_Gull’s Hornbook, The_ (Dekker), vii, 97

Haines, C. M., 176

Harbage, Alfred, 109, 117; _Annals of the English Drama_, xi, xii; _Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions_, ix; _Shakespeare’s Audience_, 22

Hardwick Hall, 167-168

Harper, Sir William, 105

Harvey, Gabriel, x

Hatfield House, 167

Hathway, Richard, 20

Heavens, machinery in the, 93-94, 106

_Hedda Gabler_ (Ibsen), 40, 60

Heminges, John, x, 4, 123, 133

Heminges _vs._ Witter & Ostler, 4

_Henry IV, Part I, King_, 14, 129

_Henry V, King_ (Shakespeare), viii, xi, xii, 68

_Henry V_ (Anonymous), 11

Henry VIII, 104, 165

Henslowe, Philip, vii, x; _Diary_, 3-5, 8-10, 12-17, 19-22, 217; _Papers_, 75, 79, 94-95, 125, 217

Herbert, Sir Henry, _The Dramatic Records of_, 13, 21

Hertford’s men, 4

Heywood, John, 124

Heywood, Thomas, 9, 10

Hilliard, Nicholas, 165

_Histrio-mastix_, 121, 123

Hoby, Thomas, 117

Hodges, C. Walter, _The Globe Restored_, 69, 94, 101-102, 158, 230-231

_Honest Whore I, The_ (Dekker and Middleton), 145

Hope, the, 94, 102

_Horestes_, 121

Hoskins, John, _Directions for Speech and Style_, 118

Hosley, Richard, 73, 82, 84, 89, 92, 99

Hotson, Leslie, xi; _The First Night of Twelfth Night_, x, 23; _Shakespeare’s Motley_, 125; _Shakespeare vs. Shallow_, xii; _Shakespeare’s Wooden O_, 95-97

_Humors and Shakespeare’s Characters, The_ (Draper), 139, 154, 241, 242

Hunter, Sir Mark, 176

_Idea of a Theater, The_ (Fergusson), 29

Income of players, 21-22

_Ion_ (Euripides), 32

_Isle of Dogs, The_, 3, 5

James I, King, x, 15, 20, 22, 104, 133

_Jeronimo, The First Part of_, xiv, 96, 204

_Jew of Malta, The_, 8, 14

_John, King_, 168

Johnson, Samuel, 26, 47

Jones, Inigo, 103

Jonson, Ben, xiii, 3, 9, 17, 21, 25-26, 28, 44, 49, 58, 61, 68-69, 87, 120, 151, 172; _Every Man In His Humour_, 93; _The New Inn_, 26. See also _Every Man Out of His Humour_, _Sejanus_, and _Volpone_

Joseph, Bertram, _Elizabethan Acting_, 113-114, 132

Judge-figure in finale, 36-38, 208

Katherens, Gilbert, 105

Keen, Frances, 23

Kemp, Will, viii, xii, 135-136

Kernodle, George R., _From Art to Theatre_, 102-105, 158, 216

King’s men, ix, x, xiii, xiv, 13-14, 21, 24, 94, 133-134. _See also_ Chamberlain-King’s men, Chamberlain’s men, and Globe company

Kittredge, G. L., xi, xii, 195, 230

_Knack to Know an Honest Man, A_, 147

Knight, G. Wilson, _Principles of Shakespearean Production_, 39-40; _Wheel of Fire_, 58, 61

Kreider, Paul, _Repetition in Shakespeare’s Plays_, 197

Kyd, Thomas, 15, 48, 92

“Law of reentry,” 176

Lawrence, W. J., 40, 71, 201

Leicester’s company, 122

_Leir, King_, 151

Localization of action, 64-68, 72-73, 220

_Longshank_, 6, 11

Lord Mayor’s Show, 103-105

_Love’s Labour’s Lost_, 18

_Love’s Labour’s Won_, xi

Lowin, J., 96-97, 123, 133, 134-135

Lucas, F. L., 45

McManaway, J. G., xii

Malone, Edmond, 13, 21, 75

Manly, John M., 30

Mansions, use of, 95

Marivaux, Pierre, 112-113

Marlowe, Christopher, 15, 92, 124; _Doctor Faustus_, 14, 17; _The Jew of Malta_, 8, 14; _Tamberlaine_, 6, 7, 14

Marston, John, xiv, 96. See also _The Malcontent_

Merchant Tailors Company, 105

Meres, Francis, _Palladis Tamia_, x, xi, xii

_Messalina_ title page, 98-99

Messenger scenes, staging of, 205-206

Middleton, Thomas, 20; _The Honest Whore I_, 145

_Midsummer Night’s Dream, A_, 130

Mildmay, Sir Humphrey, 21

Mirror, image of art as a, 27-29, 59

Mirror pattern, 51-53

Molière, 21, 112, 136

Moscow Art Theatre, 112, 132

Moulton, R. G., _Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist_, 40, 41

_Much Ado About Nothing_, xi-xii, 136, 150, 153

Nagler, Alois, _Shakespeare’s Stage_, 96, 99

Nashe, Thomas, 3

Newington Butts, 5, 13, 18

_New Inn, The_ (Jonson), 26

New plays, introduction of, 9, 11-13

_New World’s Tragedy, A_, 11

_Northern Lass, The_, 21

Observation scenes, staging of, 183, 193-197

_Oedipus_ (Sophocles), 31

_On Producing Shakespeare_ (Watkins), 163-164, 175, 214

_Oresteia_ (Aeschylus), 47

_Organization and Personnel of the Shakespearean Company, The_ (Baldwin), 22, 128, 133-136

_Orlando Furioso_ (Greene), 131-132, 147

Orsino, Virginio, Duke of Bracciano, 23, 96

Ostler, William, 133

_Palladis Tamia_ (F. Meres), x-xii

Palsgrave’s company, 14

_Papers_ (Henslowe), 75, 79, 94-95, 125, 217

Peacham, Henry, _Garden of Eloquence, The_, 118, 119

Peele, George, _The Battle of Alcazar_, 147, 176, 179; _Edward I_, 6

Pembroke’s men, 3

_Peripeteia_, 32

_Phaethon_, 18, 20, 79

Phillips, Augustine, 4, 123, 130, 133

_Philoctetes_ (Sophocles), 31

Platter, Thomas, x, 14, 97

Plautus, 25, 48

_Playes Confuted in Five Actions_ (Gosson), 122

_Plays and Masques at Court_ (Steele), 219

Plutarch, 74, 214

Poel, William, 214

_Poetaster_ (Jonson), xiii

_Poetics_ (Aristotle), 29, 31-32, 39, 49, 58

_Polyphemus_, 10

Pope, Thomas, 4, 123-124, 133

_Prefaces to Shakespeare_ (Granville-Barker), 41

Prince’s men, 14

_Principles of Art History_ (Wölfflin), 27

_Principles of Shakespearean Production_ (Knight), 39-40

Privy Council, 3, 5, 19

_Promos and Cassandra_ (Whetstone), 139

Properties, stage, 74-82, 158-174 _passim_, 221-225

Puttenham, George, _The Arte of English Poesie_, 28-29

_Pythagoras_, 11

Queen of Bohemia’s company, 14

Queen’s men, 121, 122

Ramus, P., 114, 119

Ranking-figure, 38, 210, 212

Red Bull, the, 4, 92, 95, 158

_Repetition in Shakespeare’s Plays_ (Kreider), 197

Resolving figure, 211-212

_Return from Parnassus, II, The_, 136

Revivals, system of, 8, 17-18

Reynolds, George F., 63, 65, 72-73, 175, 214, 216; _The Staging of Elizabethan Plays at the Red Bull_, 92, 95, 158, 174

Rich, John, 134

_Richard II, King_, 14, 130

_Richard III, King_, 61, 136, 158, 165, 168

River pattern, 48, 50-51

_Romeo and Juliet_, viii

Rose, the, 5-7, 22

_Roxana_ title page, 97-99, 180

Royal entries, 103-104

Sands, James, 134

Scaffolds on stage, 79-80, 82

Schücking, L. L., _Character Problems in Shakespeare’s Plays_, 45, 47

_Seleo and Olempo_, 7

_Selimus_, 126, 147

Seneca, 48

_Seven Days of the Week_, 6, 11

_Seven Deadly Sins_, 123,133

Shakespeare (?), Ned, 134

_Shakespeare and the Audience_ (Sprague), 186

_Shakespeare and the Nature of Man_ (Spencer), 139

_Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions_ (Harbage), ix

_Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist_ (Moulton), 40, 41

_Shakespeare’s Audience_ (Harbage), 22

_Shakespeare’s Five-Act Structure_ (Baldwin), 26, 29, 40

_Shakespeare’s Life and Art_ (Alexander), xii

_Shakespeare’s Motley_ (Hotson), 125

_Shakespeare’s Stage_ (Nagler), 96, 99

_Shakespeare Studies_ (Stoll), 58

_Shakespeare’s Theater_ (Thorndike), 66, 175

_Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes_ (L. B. Campbell), 139, 141

_Shakespeare’s Wooden O_ (Hotson), 95-97

_Shakespeare vs. Shallow_ (Hotson), xii

_Shakesperian Stage, The_ (Albright), 65, 214

Sidney, Sir Philip, _The Defence of Poesie_, 24, 58, 66

Simultaneous setting, 158-160, 164

_Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes_, 121, 125-126

_Sir Thomas More_, 121

Sly, William, 96-97, 123, 133, 135

Smith, Irwin, 73

Smith, Warren, 79-80, 186, 230

Smith, Wentworth, 20

Soliloquies, staging of, 183-186

Southern, Richard, 84, 101

_Spanish Tragedy, The_ (Kyd), 14, 17

Spencer, Theodore, _Shakespeare and the Nature of Man_, 139

Sprague, A. C., _Shakespeare and the Audience_, 186

Stage doors, use of, 70-71

_Staging of Elizabethan Plays at the Red Bull, The_ (Reynolds), 92, 95, 158, 174

Stanislavsky, C., 215

Steele, Mary S., _Plays and Masques at Court_, 219

Stoll, Elmer E., _Shakespeare Studies_, 58

Stools, use of, 77-78

_Strange News Out of Poland_, 9

Strange’s men, 17

_Streetcar Named Desire, A_ (Williams), 60, 149

Streete, Peter, ix, x, 105

Swan drawing, 72, 94, 97-102, 169

Symbolism in staging, 216

_Tableaux vivants_, 102-103

_Table of Humane Passions, A_ (Coeffeteau), 143

Tables, use of, 76-77, 82-83

Talaeus, Audomarus, 119

_Tambercame II_, 18

_Tamberlaine, I & II_ (Marlowe), 6-7, 14

Tarleton, Richard, 122, 123

Tents, use of, 81

Terence, 26, 40, 48

Theatre, the, vii-ix, 71, 128

Théâtre-Libre, the, 112

_Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy_ (Bradbrook), 26, 30-31, 51, 58

_Thome Strowd, II_, 10

Thorndike, Ashley, _Shakespeare’s Theater_, 66, 175

_Three Ladies of London_ (R. Wilson), 147

_Three Lords and Three Ladies of London, The_ (R. Wilson), 147

Tillyard, E. M. W., _The Elizabethan World Picture_, 139

_Titus Andronicus_, viii

Tooley, Nicholas, 123, 133

Tourneur, Cyril, xiii

_Toy to Please Chaste Ladies, A_, 6-8, 11

Traps, use of, 92-93, 106, 201-202

_Treatise of Melancholie, A_ (Bright), 139, 143-144

_Troublesome Reign of King John, The_, 147

_True Tragedy of King Richard III, The_, 126

_Two Angry Women of Abington, II_ (Porter), 10

Underwood, John, 133

Van Buchell, Arend, 100

Walker, Albert, 125, 153-154

_Warning for Fair Women, A_, 81, 94, 147, 200, 203

Watkins, Ronald, _On Producing Shakespeare_, 163-164, 175, 214

Watson, C. B., 37

_Weather, The_ (J. Heywood), 124

Webster, John, xiv, 45, 96. See also _The Malcontent_

_Wheel of Fire_ (Knight), 58, 61

Whetstone, George, _Promos and Cassandra_, 139

Whitehall Palace, x, 96

Wilkins, George, xiii. See also _Miseries of Enforced Marriage_

_William Shakespeare_ (E. K. Chambers), x-xii

Wilson, J. Dover, x

Wilson, Jack, 134

Wilson, Robert, 122, 123; _Three Ladies of London_ and _The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London_, 147

Wilson, Thomas, _The Art of Rhetorique_, 114-115, 117, 119

_Winter’s Tale, The_, 15

_Wits, The_, 98, 180

_Witts, The_ (Davenant), 21

Wölfflin, Heinrich, _Principles of Art History_, 27

Wollaton Hall, 167-168

_Woman Killed with Kindness, A_ (T. Heywood), 10

_Woman of Andros_ (Terence), 26

_Wonder of a Woman_, 7, 11

Worcester-Queen’s men, 4

Worcester’s men, 3-4, 10, 12-13, 16, 133

Worde, Wynken de, 104

_Yegor Bulichev and Others_ (Gorki), 61

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

The table at the start of Appendix C was very wide in the original book. It has been modified by splitting each row into two rows, each one less than 75 characters wide.

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

Pg 112: ‘a Francatrippa’ replaced by ‘a Franca Trippa’. Pg 152: ‘[Sig. El^r]’ replaced by ‘[Sig. E1^r]’. Pg 217: ‘[22]’ replaced by ‘(22)’ to avoid confusion with the footnote notation. Pg 243: ‘written to that’ replaced by ‘written so that’. Pg 246: ‘staging of V, iii,’ replaced by ‘staging of, viii,’. Pg 247: ‘focus 172-173;’ replaced by ‘of focus 172-173;’.