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and Brazen Ages, which, if they were really given just as Heywood printed them, must have strained the scenic resources of the Red Bull to an extreme. Here are ascents and descents and entries from every conceivable point of the stage;[1] divinities in fantastic disguise;[2] mythological dumb-shows;[3] battles and hunting episodes and revels;[4] ingenious properties, often with a melodramatic thrill;[5] and from*
- ↑ G. A. V, 'Iris descends . . . Iupiter first ascends upon the Eagle, and after him Ganimed'. . . . 'Enter at 4 severall corners the 4 winds'; S. A. II, 'Thunder and lightning. Iupiter discends in a cloude'. . . . 'Iuno and Iris descend from the heavens'; III, 'Enter Iuno and Iris above in a cloud'. . . . 'Enter Pluto, his Chariot drawne in by Divels'. . . . 'Mercury flies from above'. . . . 'Earth riseth from under the stage'. . . . 'Earth sinkes'. . . . 'The river Arethusa riseth from the stage'; IV, 'Iupiter taking up the Infant speakes as he ascends in his cloud'; V, 'Hercules sinkes himselfe: Flashes of fire; the Diuels appeare at every corner of the stage with severall fire-workes'. . . . 'Exeunt three wayes Ceres, Theseus, Philoctetes, and Hercules dragging Cerberus one way: Pluto, hels Iudges, the Fates and Furies downe to hell: Iupiter, the Gods and Planets ascend to heaven'; B. A. I, 'When the Fury sinkes, a Buls head appeares'; V, 'Enter Hercules from a rocke above, tearing down trees'. . . . 'Iupiter above strikes him with a thunderbolt, his body sinkes, and from the heavens discends a hand in a cloud, that from the place where Hercules was burnt, brings up a starre, and fixeth it in the firmament'.
- ↑ G. A. II, 'Enter Iupiter like a Nimph, or a Virago'; IV, 'Enter Iupiter like a Pedler'; S. A. II, 'Enter . . . Iupiter shapt like Amphitrio'; IV, 'Enter Iuno in the shape of old Beroe'. . . . 'Enter Iupiter like a wood-*man'; B. A. V, 'Enter . . . Hercules attired like a woman, with a distaffe and a spindle'.
- ↑ S. A. III, 'The Nurses bring yong Hercules in his Cradle, and leave him. Enter Iuno and Iris with two snakes, put them to the childe and depart: Hercules strangles them: to them Amphitrio, admiring the accident'; B. A. IV, 'Enter Vulcan and Pyragmon with his net of wire. . . . Vulcan catcheth them fast in his net. . . . All the Gods appeare above and laugh, Iupiter, Iuno, Phoebus, Mercury, Neptune'.
- ↑ G. A. II, 'A confused fray, an alarme. . . . Lycaon makes head againe, and is beat off by Iupiter and the Epirians, Iupiter ceazeth the roome of Lycaon'; II, 'Enter with musicke (before Diana) sixe Satires, after them all their Nimphs, garlands on their heads, and iavelings in their hands, their Bowes and Quivers: the Satyrs sing'. . . . 'Hornes winded, a great noise of hunting. Enter Diana, all her Nimphes in the chase, Iupiter pulling Calisto back'; III, 'Alarm. They combat with iavelings first, after with swords and targets'; S. A. III, 'Enter Ceres and Proserpine attired like the Moone, with a company of Swaines, and country Wenches: They sing'. . . . 'A confused fray with stooles, cups and bowles, the Centaurs are beaten. . . . Enter with victory, Hercules'; B. A. IV, 'Enter Aurora, attended with Seasons, Daies, and Howers'; V, 'Hercules swings Lychas about his head, and kils him'.
- ↑ G. A. I, 'Enter Saturn with wedges of gold and silver, models of ships and buildings, bow and arrowes, &c.'; II, 'Vesta and the Nurse, who with counterfeit passion present the King a bleeding heart upon a knives point, and a bowle of bloud'. . . . 'A banquet brought in, with the limbes of a man in the service'; B. A. V, 'Enter to the sacrifice two Priests to the Altar, sixe Princes with sixe of his labours, in the midst Hercules
