Tapestry at Hampton Court Palace, 1630
Sarah Ann M. Ill, Visibility and Resonance: Tapestries on and around the Early Modern Stage. Masters thesis, Mary Baldwin College, 2007.
King’s Men performed Fletcher’s Custom of the Country at Hampton Court Palace, Oct. 24, 1630:
I am got into a house, the doors all open.
This, by the largeness of the room, the hangings,
And other side adornments, glistring through
The sable masque of night, sayes it belongs
To one of meanes and ranke. (II.iv.15-20)
Cited Ill, p. 21.
Same play also performed at the Blackfriars. p. 22.
And Hall at Whitehall, 1638. p. 22.
“Sir John Finet writes of ‘carpets hung before and about’ the seats at Whitehall for a play in April of 1640.” p. 23
Comparable to Bosse etching of Fountainbleu event, 1633. (also in Astington.)
St. James Palace: performances in the Council Chamber, the Presence Chamber. (No Great Hall.) p. 25.
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