[269] Looking Glass, IV. ii, s.d. ‘Jonas the Prophet cast out of the Whales belly vpon the Stage’.
[270] Dr. Faustus, 1450, s.d. (addition of 1616 text), ‘Hell is discouered’; cf. p. 72 for the description of the imaginary stage in the Wagner Book. The Admiral’s inventories of 1598 (Henslowe Papers, 116) include ‘j Hell mought’.
[271] Arden of Feversham, IV. ii, iii.
[272] Cf. p. 51.
[273] Cf. p. 43.
[274] Cf. p. 76.
[275] Of the late woodcuts, Roxana shows ‘above’ two compartments, clearly with spectators; Messalina one, closed by curtains; The Wits a central one closed by curtains, and three on each side, with female spectators. In view of their dates and doubtful provenances (cf. Bibl. Note to ch. xviii), these are no evidence for the sixteenth-century public theatre, but they show that at some plays, public or private, the audience continued to sit ‘over the stage’ well in to the seventeenth century.
[276] Cf. vol. ii, p. 542.
[277] Cf. p. 45.
[278] Henslowe Papers, 139.