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 to have ever attended the Blackfriars, but Anne certainly did. And the price of the seats, which ranged from 6d. to 2s. 6d., was of itself sufficient to keep out persons of the 'groundling' or 'stinkard' type. Performances did not necessarily take place every day, and they could begin rather later and go on rather longer than those out of doors, since they were not dependent on daylight. Windows were certainly used, for we hear of them being clapped down to give the illusion of night scenes. But candles and torches supplied an artificial lighting. As both the Paul's boys and those ofhaue but sixpenny fees all the year long, yet we dispatch you in two hours without demur: your suits hang not long here after candles be lighted'; Faithful Shepherdess (1608-9, Blackfriars), Beaumont's c. v., 'Some like, if the wax lights be new that day'. Otho of Hesse-Cassel (1611) says that the Whitefriars plays were 'nur bei lichtern'. Later we have G. Wither, Fair Virtue (1622), 1781:

those lamps which at a play Are set up to light the day;

Lenton, The Young Gallants Whirligig (1629):

spangled, rare perfumed attires, Which once so glister'd at the torchy Friars.

Cf. Lawrence (ii. 1), Light and Darkness in the Elizabethan Theatre; also E. S. xlviii. 213.]