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Tiring-house

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Tir´ing-house`
n.1.A tiring-room.
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29) Possibly the doors opening onto the stage were opened 180 degrees so that they were flush with the tiring-house wall, and then the opening was covered with a curtain.
Curtains on the Shakespearean stage by Kiefer, Frederick / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
And while none of the stage directions we can safely attribute to Marlowe requires the stage trap, he often made repeated use of the tiring-house wall and its openings.
Marlowe's staging of meaning by Thomson, Leslie / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
This example suggests that even when an offstage voice is not closely related to the character's entrance, it may have been usual for the actor to deliver the speech from behind one of the openings in the tiring-house facade, as opposed to behind the solid wall of the frons scenae.
"Maluolio within": acting on the threshold between onstage and ... by Ichikawa, Mariko / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
 
 
 
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