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 beginning to end a succession of atmospheric phenomena, which suggest that the Jacobeans had made considerable progress in the art of stage pyrotechnics. The Globe, with its traditional 'blazing star', is left far behind.

The critical points of staging are the recesses below and above. Some kind of recess on the level of the main stage is often required by the King's plays; for action in or before a prison, a cell, a cave, a closet, a study, a tomb, a chapel, a shop;[10] for the revelation of dead bodies or other concealed

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 * [Footnote: bearing his two brazen pillars, six other Princes, with the other six