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A. SQUARE THEATRE (Proportions of Fortune)
Juliet bids him shut the door. Here, no doubt, the Friar may have looked out and seen Juliet through a back window, and she may have entered by a back door. But in an earlier scene, where we get the stage-direction 'Enter Nurse and knockes', and the knocking is repeated until the Nurse is admitted to the cell, we are, I think, bound to suppose that the entry is in front, in the sight of the audience, and antecedent to the knocking.[1] Perhaps an even clearer case is in Captain Thomas Stukeley, where Stukeley's chamber in the Temple is certainly approached from the open stage by a door at which Stukeley's father knocks, and which is unlocked and locked again.[2] Yet how can a door be inserted in that side of a chamber which is open to the stage and the audience. Possibly it was a very conventional door set across the narrow space between the arras and the back wall
