[359] W. T. V. iii; D. of Malfi, III. iv. 1, ‘Two Pilgrimes to the Shrine of our Lady of Loretto’.
[360] E. M. O. IV. iii-v; cf. Roaring Girl (Fortune) (ed. Pearson, p. 50), ‘The three shops open in a ranke: the first a Poticaries shop, the next a Fether shop; the third a Sempsters shop’; Two Lamentable Tragedies (? Fortune), I. i, ‘Sit in his shop’ (Merry’s); I. iii, ‘Then Merry must passe to Beeches shoppe, who must sit in his shop, and Winchester his boy stand by: Beech reading’; II. i, ‘The boy sitting at his maisters dore’.... ‘When the boy goeth into the shoppe Merrie striketh six blowes on his head and with the seaventh leaues the hammer sticking in his head’.... ‘Enter one in his shirt and a maide, and comming to Beeches shop findes the boy murthered’; IV. iv, ‘Rachell sits in the shop’ (Merry’s); Bartholomew Fair (Hope), II-V, which need booths for the pig-woman, gingerbread woman, and hobby-horse man.
[361] Revenger’s Tragedy (Dodsley4), i, p. 26, ‘Enter ... Antonio ... discovering the body of her dead to certain Lords and Hippolito; pp. 58, 90 (scenes of assignation and murder in a room with ‘yon silver ceiling’, a ‘darken’d blushless angle’, ‘this unsunned lodge’, ‘that sad room’); D. of Malfi, IV. i. 55, ‘Here is discover’d, behind a travers, the artificiall figures of Antonio and his children, appearing as if they were dead’; ii. 262, ‘Shewes the children strangled’; cf. White Devil (Queen’s), V. iv. 71, ‘They are behind the travers. Ile discover Their superstitious howling’, with s.d. ‘Cornelia, the Moore and 3 other Ladies discovered, winding Marcello’s coarse’; Brazen Age (Queen’s), III, ‘Two fiery Buls are discouered, the Fleece hanging over them, and the Dragon sleeping beneath them: Medea with strange fiery-workes, hangs above in the Aire in the strange habite of a Coniuresse’.
[362] Cf. p. 25. I am not clear whether Volpone, V. 2801, ‘Volpone peepes from behinde a trauerse’ is below or above, but in either event the traverse in this case must have been a comparatively low screen and free from attachment at the top, as Volpone says (2761), ‘I’le get up, Behind the cortine, on a stoole, and harken; Sometime, peepe ouer’.
[363] M. Ado, I. iii. 63; M. Wives, III. iii. 97, ‘Falstaffe stands behind the aras’ (Q1); Ham. II. ii. 163; III. iv. 22; D. of Malfi, I. ii. 65; Philaster, II. ii. 61, ‘Exit behind the hangings’ ... (148), ‘Enter Galatea from behind the hangings’.
[364] Cy. II. ii. 1, ‘Enter Imogen, in her Bed, and a Lady’ ... (11) ‘Iachimo from the Trunke’, who says (47) ‘To th’ Truncke againe, and shut the spring of it’ and (51) ‘Exit’; cf. II. iii. 42, ‘Attend you here the doore of our stern daughter?’; cf. Rape of Lucrece (Red Bull), p. 222 (ed. Pearson), ‘Lucrece discovered in her bed’.
[365] Ham. III. iv; cf. p. 116. Most of the scenes are in some indefinite place in the castle, called in II. ii. 161 ‘here in the lobby’ (Q2, F1) or ‘here in the gallery’ (Q1). Possibly the audience for the play scene (III. ii) were in the alcove, as there is nothing to suggest that they were above; or they may have been to right and left, and the players in the alcove; it is guesswork.
[366] Oth. V. ii. 1, ‘Enter Othello with a light’ (Q1), ‘Enter Othello and Desdemona in her bed’ (F1). It is difficult to say whether Maid’s Tragedy, V. i. 2 (continuous scene), where Evadne’s entry and colloquy with a gentleman of the bedchamber is followed by s.d. ‘King abed’, implies a ‘discovery’ or not.
[367] D. Charter, I. v. 547, ‘Enter Lucretia alone in her night gowne untired, bringing in a chaire, which she planteth upon the Stage’ ... (579) ‘Enter Gismond di Viselli untrussed in his Night-cap, tying his points’ ... (625) ‘Gismond sitteth downe in a Chaire, Lucretia on a stoole [ready on the stage for a spectator?] beside him’ ... (673) ‘She ... convaieth away the chaire’. Barbarossa comes into ‘this parler here’ (700), finds the murdered body, and they ‘locke up the dores there’ and ‘bring in the body’ (777), which is therefore evidently not behind a curtain.
[368] D. Charter, IV. iii. 2005, ‘Enter Lucretia richly attired with a Phyal in her hand’ ... ‘Enter two Pages with a Table, two looking glasses, a box with Combes and instruments, a rich bowle’. She paints and is poisoned, and a Physician bids ‘beare in her body’ (2146).