Black Hangings
Sarah Ann M. Ill, Visibility and Resonance: Tapestries on and around the Early Modern Stage. Masters thesis, Mary Baldwin College, 2007.
Black curtains prepared audiences for tragedy. p. 42
Scant evidence for use of black hangings in open air theaters. 42.
More common in indoor spaces. p. 44
A Warning for Fair Women:
“Looke Comedie, I markt it not till now,
The stage is hung with blacke; and I perceive
The Auditors preparde for Tragedie. (induction, 80-83)
cited p. 45
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