[436] I think it is possible that Sophonisba, with its ‘canopy’ (cf. p. 149) was also originally written for Paul’s.
[437] 1, 2 Antonio and Mellida, Maid’s Metamorphosis, Wisdom of Dr. Dodipoll, Jack Drum’s Entertainment, Satiromastix, Blurt Master Constable, Bussy D’Ambois, Westward Ho!, Northward Ho!, Fawn, Michaelmas Term, Phoenix, Mad World, My Masters, Trick to Catch the Old One, Puritan, Woman Hater.
[438] Jack Drum’s Ent. v. 112.
[439] Histriomastix, i. 6, ‘now sit wee high (tryumphant in our sway)’; ii. 1, ‘Enter Plenty upon a Throne’; iii. 11, ‘If you will sit in throne of State with Pride’; v. 1, ‘Rule, fier-eied Warre!... Envy ... Hath now resigned her spightfull throne to us’; vi. 7, ‘I [Poverty] scorne a scoffing foole about my Throne’; vi. 271 (s.d.), ‘Astraea’ [in margin, ‘Q. Eliza’] ‘mounts unto the throne’; vi. 296 (original ending), ‘In the end of the play. Plenty Pride Envy Warre and Poverty To enter and resigne their severall Scepters to Peace, sitting in Maiestie’.
[440] Histriomastix, i. 163, ‘Enter ... Chrisoganus in his study’ ... (181) ‘So all goe to Chrisoganus study, where they find him reading’; ii. 70, ‘Enter Contrimen, to them, Clarke of the Market: hee wrings a bell, and drawes a curtaine; whereunder is a market set about a Crosse’ ... (80) ‘Enter Gulch, Belch, Clowt and Gut. One of them steppes on the Crosse, and cryes, A Play’ ... (105) ‘Enter Vintner with a quart of Wine’; v. 192, ‘Enter Lyon-rash to Fourchier sitting in his study at one end of the stage: At the other end enter Vourcher to Velure in his shop’.
[441] Dr. Dodipoll, I. i. 1, ‘A Curtaine drawne, Earl Lassingbergh is discovered (like a Painter) painting Lucilia, who sits working on a piece of cushion worke’. In III. ii a character is spoken of after his ‘Exit’ as ‘going down the staires’, which suggests action ‘above’. But other indications place the scene before Cassimere’s house.
[442] C. and C. Errant, I. i, ‘They entered from Maldon’; I. iv, ‘They entered from Harwich all’.
[443] C. and C. Errant, I. ii, ‘They met from Maldon and from Harwich’, for a scene in Colchester; III. i, ‘They crossd: Denham to Harwich, Lacy to Maldon’.
[444] Reynolds (M. P. xii. 248) gives the note as ‘In the middle and alofte Oceanus Pallace The Scene being. Next Proteus-Hall’. This seems barely grammatical and I am not sure that it is complete. A limitation of Paul’s is suggested by the s.d. (ibid. 258) ‘Chambers (noise supposd for Powles) For actors’, but apparently ‘a showre of Rose-water and confits’ was feasible.
[445] Faery Pastoral, p. 162, ‘A Scrolle fell into her lap from above’.