[259] Cf. p. 63, n. 4.
[260] Dr. Faustus, 1007 sqq., is apparently a hall scene, but in 1030 (an addition of 1616 text), ‘Enter Benuolio aboue at a window’, whence he views the scene with a state. On the play scene, with a gallery for the court, in Sp. Trag. IV. ii, cf. p. 93.
[261] Famous Victories, sc. viii; 2 Hen. IV, IV. iv, v; 1 Contention, scc. x, xi; 2 Hen. VI, III. ii, iii (cf. p. 65, n. 3); Edw. II, 2448–2565; 1 Tr. Raigne, xii; K. J. IV. i (cf. p. 66, n. 1); Lord Cromwell, III. ii (cf. p. 67, n. 1); Downfall of R. Hood, ind. (cf. p. 68, n. 1); Arden of Feversham, V. i (cf. p. 68, n. 2); 1 Hen. IV, II. iv; Humorous Day’s Mirth, viii (cf. p. 68, n. 3).
[262] Cf. p. 64, n. 6. W. Archer (Quarterly Review, ccviii. 457) suggests that convention allowed properties, but not dead or drunken men, to be moved in the sight of the audience by servitors. But as a rule the moving could be treated as part of the action, and need not take place between scenes.
[263] Rich. II, I. iii; 2 Edw. IV, II. iv, ‘This while the hangman prepares, Shore at this speech mounts vp the ladder ... Shoare comes downe’. The Admiral’s inventories of 1598 (Henslowe Papers, 116) include ‘j payer of stayers for Fayeton’.
[264] The dissertations of Reynolds (cf. Bibl. Note to ch. xviii) are largely devoted to the exposition of this theory.
[265] Cf. p. 52, n. 2. The Admiral’s inventories of 1598 (Henslowe Papers, 116) include ‘j baye tree’, ‘j tree of gowlden apelles’, ‘Tantelouse tre’, as well as ‘ij mose banckes’.
[266] Cf. p. 51, n. 3.
[267] Looking Glass, II. i. 495, ‘The Magi with their rods beate the ground, and from vnder the same riseth a braue Arbour’; Bacon and Bungay, sc. ix. 1171, ‘Heere Bungay coniures and the tree appeares with the dragon shooting fire’; W. for Fair Women, ii. 411, ‘Suddenly riseth vp a great tree betweene them’. On the other hand, in Old Fortunatus, 609 (ind.), the presenters bring trees on and ‘set the trees into the earth’. The t.p. of the 1615 Spanish Tragedy shows the arbour of the play as a small trellissed pergola with an arched top, not too large, I should say, to come up and down through a commodious trap.
[268] 1 Contention, sc. ii (cf. p. 56, n. 3); John a Kent, III. i (cf. p. 74, n. 3); &c.