[62] The rest of his speech indicates that he had the Theatre in mind. The passage, of course, is rhetorical.
[63] One cannot be absolutely sure, yet the whole history of early playhouses indicates that the Theatre was polygonal (or circular) in shape. The only reason for suspecting that it might have been square, doubtfully presented by T.S. Graves in "The Shape of the First London Theatre" (The South Atlantic Quarterly, July, 1914), seems to me to deserve no serious consideration.
[64] Quoted by W.B. Rye, England as Seen by Foreigners, p. 88.
[65] Wallace, op. cit., p. 177.
[66] There is no reason whatever to suppose, with Ordish, Mantzius, Lawrence, and others, that the stage of the Theatre was removable; for although the building was frequently used by fencers, tumblers, etc., it was never, so far as I can discover, used for animal-baiting.
[67] Wallace, op. cit., p. 135.
[68] For depositions to this effect see Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines, i, 350 ff.
[69] I suspect that the same terms were made with the actors by the proprietors of the inn-playhouses.
[70] Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines, i, 317.
[71] Wallace, op. cit., pp. 142, 148.