were probably a valuable part of the
theatrical belongings. If we glance over the stage-directions in the
plays of Greene, Peele, Kyd and Marlowe, we come upon such visible
objects as a throne, a bower, a bed, a table, a tomb, a litter, a cage,
a chariot, a hearse, a tree; more elaborate would be Alphonsus's canopy
with a king's head at each of three corners, Bungay's dragon shooting
fire, Remilia's 'globe seated in a ship', the 'hand from out a cloud
with a burning sword' (_A Looking-Glass_), and the Brazen Head casting
out flakes of fire (_Alphonsus_).

Considering Marlowe's plays in the light of this information we shall be
obliged to admit that they stood a good chance of having very fair
justice done to them. The points in which the staging differed from our
modern methods were in favour of greater realism. Daylight is more
truthful than foot-lights are; and if there was any poverty in the
setting, so much the more was attention centred upon the actors, who are
declared, by the authors themselves, to have attained a high level of
excellence. Fame has not yet forgotten the names of Burbage and Alleyn.

INDEX

I. AUTHORS

Aeschylus, 97, 101-2.

Ariosto, 127.

B., R., 99, 113.

Bale, Bishop, 79, 80-1.

Chapman, George, 214.

Dekker, Thomas, 241.

Drayton, Michael, 231.

Edward VI, 79.

Edwards, Richard, 115, 203, 224.

Gascoigne, George, 127.

Geoffrey, Abbot, 22.

Greene, Robert, 124, 146-67, 169, 170, 172, 173, 179, 180, 193, 221,
224, 276.

Hardy, Thomas, 30.

Heywood, John, 61, 68, 81, 82-4, 117.

Heywood, Thomas, 211.

Hilarius, 15.

Hroswitha, 10.

Hughes, Thomas, 110-15, 216, 224.

Jonson, Ben, 71, 72, 161, 198, 207.

Kyd, Thomas, 124, 193, 194, 197-221, 225, 262, 263, 269, 276.

Lodge, Thomas, 124, 148, 193, 195-7.

Lyly, John, 124-46, 148, 157, 161, 166, 167, 168, 169, 172, 173, 193,
209, 224, 270, 272, 273.

Marlowe, Christopher, 61, 107, 117, 124, 148, 167, 180, 187, 188, 193,
194, 196, 209, 216, 218, 221-63, 269, 270, 273, 276.

Marston, John, 203, 214.

Massinger, Philip, 211.

Milton, John, 107, 185.

Nash, Thomas, 124, 188-92.

Norton, Thomas, 103-10, 118, 194.

Peele, George, 124, 140, 161, 167-88, 209, 221, 230, 250, 276.

Plautus, 90, 91.

Preston, Thomas, 97-9.

Rowley, 241.

Sackville, Thomas, 103-10, 114, 118, 124, 194, 216, 224, 230.

Seneca, 96, 101, 102, 193.

Shakespeare, William, 70, 110,