[14] Antony and Cleopatra, I, ii; II, vii; Timon of Athens, I, ii; III, vi; Cromwell, scene vii; The Devil’s Charter, V, iv; The Revenger’s Tragedy, V, iii.
[15] Probably Macbeth, III, iv; As You Like It, II, v; undetermined Pericles, II, iii.
[16] Brought out: Hamlet, V, ii; The Devil’s Charter, IV, iii; V, vi; probably brought out: The Devil’s Charter, prologue; uncertain: Every Man Out of His Humour, V, iv; discovered: Othello, I, iii.
[17] A parallel instance is found in Volpone. In the last scene in which the bed is employed, Mosca says to Volpone, then lying in the bed:
Patron, go in, and pray for our successe. (III, ix, 62)
The line suggests that the bed was removed rather than hidden by a curtain.
[18] Warren Smith, “Evidence of Scaffolding on Shakespeare’s Stage,” R.E.S., n.s. II (1951), 22-29.
[19] Richard Hosley, “The Discovery-Space in Shakespeare’s Globe,” Shakespeare Survey, XII (1959), 35-46. Many of my own conclusions parallel those of Mr. Hosley. See my dissertation, The Production of Shakespeare’s Plays at the Globe Playhouse, 1599–1609 (Columbia University, 1956).
[20] Ibid., 46. Both Cromwell, sc. vi, and Merry Wives of Windsor, III, iii, require similar facilities.
[21] Richard Southern, “On Reconstructing a Practicable Elizabethan Public Playhouse,” Shakespeare Survey, XII (1959), p. 33.