Note 427 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 3)
Reading edition
Cf. App. I, and Neuendorff, 149, who quotes J. Corey, Generous Enemies (1672), prol.:
Coarse hangings then, instead of scenes, were worn. And Kidderminster did the stage adorn.
Graves, 78, suggests pictorial ‘painted cloths’ for backgrounds.