1. Read scene 2 of Comus by Milton. Should the entire masque be acted out-of-doors? If presented on an indoors stage what should the setting be? Inside the palace of Comus? How then do the Brothers get in? How do Sabrina and her Nymphs arise? From a pool, a fountain? Might the stage show an exterior? Would the palace be on one side? The edge of the woods on the other? Would the banks of the river be at the rear? Would such an arrangement make entrances, exits, acting, effective? Explain all your opinions.
Read one of the following. Devise a stage setting for it. Describe it fully. If you can, make a sketch in black and white or in color, showing it as it would appear to the audience. Or make a working plan, showing every detail. Or construct a small model of the set, making the parts so that they will stand. Or place them in a box to reproduce the stage. Use one-half inch to the foot.
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream, scene 1. Interior? Exterior? Color? Lighting?
3. Hamlet, Act I, scene 5. Castle battlements? A graveyard? Open space in country some distance from castle?
4. Comus, scene 3.
5. The Tempest, Act I, scene 1.
6. Twelfth Night, Act II, scene 3.
7. Romeo and Juliet, Act I, scene I.
8. Julius Caesar, Act III, scene 2.