Note 117 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS

In the Latin academic drama the transition between classical and romantic staging is represented by Legge’s Richardus Tertius (1580). This is Senecan in general character, but unity of place is not strictly observed. A s.d. to the first Actio (iii. 64) is explicit for the use of a curtain to discover a recessed interior, ’ A curtaine being drawne, let the queene appeare in ye sanctuary, her 5 daughters and maydes about her, sittinge on packs, fardells, chests, cofers. The queene sitting on ye ground with fardells about her’.