As far as can be gathered from records, there was no great attempt to preserve, in the actor's dresses, the local colouring of the play. Nevertheless various easy and obviously required concessions would be made. Kings and queens would dress magnificently, mechanics and serving-men humbly. In _Orlando Furioso_ we read that Orlando is to enter 'attired as a madman' and that Marsilius and Mandricard are to appear 'like Palmers'; in _Alphonsus, King of Arragon_ 'Calchas rises up in a white surplice and a cardinal's mitre', and in _Edward the First_ Longshanks figures 'in Friar's weeds'. The list could be continued. It is practically certain that there was no painted scenery, the absence of which would greatly facilitate the expeditious passage from scene to scene. Stage properties, however, were probably a valuable part of the theatrical belongings. If we glance over the stage-directions in the plays of Greene, Peele, Kyd and Marlowe, we come upon such visible objects as a throne, a bower, a bed, a table, a tomb, a litter, a cage, a chariot, a hearse, a tree; more elaborate would be Alphonsus's canopy with a king's head at each of three corners, Bungay's dragon shooting fire, Remilia's 'globe seated in a ship', the 'hand from out a cloud with a burning sword' (_A Looking-Glass_), and the Brazen Head casting out flakes of fire (_Alphonsus_). Considering Marlowe's plays in the light of this information we shall be obliged to admit that they stood a good chance of having very fair justice done to them. The points in which the staging differed from our modern methods were in favour of greater realism. Daylight is more truthful than foot-lights are; and if there was any poverty in the setting, so much the more was attention centred upon the actors, who are declared, by the authors themselves, to have attained a high level of excellence. Fame has not yet forgotten the names of Burbage and Alleyn. INDEX I. AUTHORS Aeschylus, 97, 101-2. Ariosto, 127. B., R., 99, 113. Bale, Bishop, 79, 80-1. Chapman, George, 214. Dekker, Thomas, 241. Drayton, Michael, 231. Edward VI, 79. Edwards, Richard, 115, 203, 224. Gascoigne, George, 127. Geoffrey, Abbot, 22. Greene, Robert, 124, 146-67, 169, 170, 172, 173, 179, 180, 193, 221, 224, 276. Hardy, Thomas, 30. Heywood, John, 61, 68, 81, 82-4, 117. Heywood, Thomas, 211. Hilarius, 15. Hroswitha, 10. Hughes, Thomas, 110-15, 216, 224. Jonson, Ben, 71, 72, 161, 198, 207. Kyd, Thomas, 124, 193, 194, 197-221, 225, 262, 263, 269, 276. Lodge, Thomas, 124, 148, 193, 195-7. Lyly, John, 124-46, 148, 157, 161, 166, 167, 168, 169, 172, 173, 193, 209, 224, 270, 272, 273. Marlowe, Christopher, 61, 107, 117, 124, 148, 167, 180, 187, 188, 193, 194, 196, 209, 216, 218, 221-63, 269, 270, 273, 276. Marston, John, 203, 214. Massinger, Philip, 211. Milton, John, 107, 185. Nash, Thomas, 124, 188-92. Norton, Thomas, 103-10, 118, 194.