Note 468 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 3)

A Mad World has (a) Harebrain’s (I. ii; III. i; IV. iv); (b) Penitent Brothel’s (IV. i), with interior action; (c) a courtesan’s (I. i; II. iii, vi; III. ii; IV. v), with a bed and five persons at once, perhaps above, in III. ii; (d) Sir Bounteous Progress’s in the country (II. i; II. ii, iv, v, vii; III. iii; IV. ii, iii; V. i, ii). The action here is rather puzzling, but apparently a hall, a lodging next it, where are ‘Curtains drawn’ (II. vii. 103), the stairs, and a ‘closet’ or ‘matted chamber’ (IV. ii. 27; IV. iii. 3) are all used. If the scenes were shifted, the interposition of a scene of only 7 lines (II. iii) at London amongst a series of country scenes is strange.