TIME AND PLACE
TIME
The Time is laid on a night shortly after the birth of Christ.
PLACE
The Masque takes place in Four Regions, indicated by Two Stages, and Two Aisles, the Audience being located between the two stages.
Stage A represents the Place of Outcasts: a knoll, with path, in the Wilderness, before the Evergreen Tree.
Stage B (located opposite Stage A) represents the Place of Empire: the Gateway and Steps to the Palace of Herod.
Aisle I (located on the right of Stage B, as one faces Stage A) represents a Pathway from the land of Herod into the Wilderness.
Aisle II (located on the left of Stage B and parallel to Aisle I) represents another Pathway into the Wilderness.