Note 5 — Chapter Five THE STAGING
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Alfred Harbage, Theatre for Shakespeare (Toronto, 1955) pp. 31 ff., estimates that in the 1,463 scenes of the 86 plays produced in the popular theater between 1576 and 1608, only 90, or slightly more than 6 per cent of the scenes require “the use of a curtained recess or equivalent stage enclosure.”