Note 462 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 3)
Reading edition
Westward Ho! uses the houses of Justiniano (I. i), Wafer (III. iii), Ambush (III. iv), the Earl (II. ii; IV. ii), and a Bawd (IV. i), the shops of Tenterhook (I. ii; III. i) and Honeysuckle (II. i), and inns at the Steelyard (II. iii), Shoreditch (II. iii), and Brentford (V). Continuous setting would not construct so many houses for single scenes. There is action above at the Bawd’s, and interior action below in several cases; in IV. ii, ‘the Earle drawes a curten and sets forth a banquet’. The s.ds. of this scene seem inadequate; at a later point Moll is apparently ‘discovered’, shamming death. Northward Ho! uses the houses of Mayberry (I. iii; II. ii) and Doll (II. i; III. i), a garden house at Moorfields (III. ii), Bellamont’s study (IV. i), Bedlam (IV. iii, iv), a ‘tavern entry’ in London (I. ii), and an inn at Ware (I. i; V. i). Action above is at the last only, interior action below in several.