[289] Cf. p. 58, n. 2.
[290] Cf. p. 119.
[291] Arden of Feversham, III. i (p. 61, n. 3), and Death of R. Hood, IV. i (p. 66, n. 1), require stairs of which the foot or ‘threshold’ is visible. For the execution scene in Sir T. More, sc. xvii (p. 57, n. 2), the whole stairs should be visible, but perhaps here, as elsewhere, the scaffold, although More likens it to a ‘gallerie’, was to be at least in part a supplementary structure. The Admiral’s inventory of 1598 (Henslowe Papers, 116; cf. ch. ii, p. 168) included ‘j payer of stayers for Fayeton’. In Soliman and Perseda, I. iii (p. 57, n. 4), where the back wall represents the outer wall of a tiltyard, ladders are put up against it.
[292] Albright, 66; Lawrence, ii. 45. I am not prepared to accept the theory that in R. J. III. v Romeo descends his ladder from behind; cf. p. 94, n. 2. The other examples cited are late, but I should add the ‘window that goes out into the leads’ of 1 Oldcastle, 2016 (p. 66, n. 1).
[293] Jew of Malta, V. 2316; cf. p. 68, n. 5.
[294] E. M. I. I. v, ‘Bobadilla discouers himselfe: on a bench’.
[295] Cf. p. 54, nn. 2–5.
[296] See the conjectural reconstruction in Albright, 120.
[297] Jonsonus Virbius (1638).
[298] Cf. p. 72.