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“The title page of a 1625 quarto shows how carefully the white and black houses were distinguished on the Globe stage. The boxed reference to the two houses sugges the use of stage-doors, the sinisted black pieces in teh diplomatic game entering from the left. There is no suggestion in the play that a table with chess board was used, but the lower panel, with its representation of the Fat Bishop de Dominis, teh Black Knight Gondomar,and teh white Knight Prince Charles probably approximates closely to the costumes actually used. It was said at the time that players had obtained a discarded suit of Gondomar’s and his actual litter. The play also makes cruel reference to the chair of ease, or commode, which Gondomar, as a result of a fistula, had to use.” page 194 and 195 Oxford Illustrated History of the Theatre ed. John Russell Brown OUP Oxford 1995
January 7th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
“The title page of a 1625 quarto shows how carefully the white and black houses were distinguished on the Globe stage. The boxed reference to the two houses sugges the use of stage-doors, the sinisted black pieces in teh diplomatic game entering from the left. There is no suggestion in the play that a table with chess board was used, but the lower panel, with its representation of the Fat Bishop de Dominis, teh Black Knight Gondomar,and teh white Knight Prince Charles probably approximates closely to the costumes actually used. It was said at the time that players had obtained a discarded suit of Gondomar’s and his actual litter. The play also makes cruel reference to the chair of ease, or commode, which Gondomar, as a result of a fistula, had to use.” page 194 and 195 Oxford Illustrated History of the Theatre ed. John Russell Brown OUP Oxford 1995