Note 3 — THE LITTLE MAN[56]
Reading edition
The Elizabethan platform stage survived until then in the shape of the long "apron," projecting in front of the proscenium. The characters were constantly stepping out of the frame of the picture; and while this visual convention maintained itself, there was nothing inconsistent or jarring in the auditory convention of the soliloquy. See William Archer, Play-Making, Boston, 1912, pp. 397-405.