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 or in a Roman play a market-place, may hold a tomb. Finally one or more shops may be visible, and action may take place within them as well as before them. Such a shop would, of course, be nothing more than a shallow stall, with an open front for the display of wares, which may be closed by a shutter or flap from above. It may also, like the inn in Henry VI, have a sign.

Where there is a window, there can of course be a door, and street scenes very readily become threshold scenes. I do not think that it has been fully realized how large a proportion

up in a basket and left dangling in mid-air, while later (1999) Pisaro is heard 'at the window' and 'Enter Pisaro aboue'); Two A. Women, 1495, 'Enter Mall in the window'; Sp. Trag. ii, where spies 'in secret' and 'aboue' overhear the loves of Horatio and Belimperia below. Lovers are not concerned in Sp. Trag.  ii, 'Enter Hieronimo  A Letter falleth';  ix, 'Belimperia, at a window'; The Shrew,  i. 17, 'Pedant lookes out of the window'.]
 * [Footnote: (where Vandalle, come to woo Pisaro's daughter in the dark, is drawn