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 or near London, this may be a definite and familiar spot—Cheapside, Lombard Street, Paul's Churchyard, Westminster. Often the action is self-sufficient and the background merely suggestive or decorative. A procession passes; a watch is set; friends meet and converse; a stranger asks his way. But sometimes a structure comes into use. There is a scaffold for an execution. Lists are set, and there must be at least a raised place for the judge, and probably a barrier. One street scene in Soliman and Perseda is outside a tiltyard; another close to an accessible tower. Bills may be set up. In Lord Cromwell this is apparently done on a bridge, and twice in this play it is difficult to resist the conclusion, already