There are scenes in living-rooms, often called 'studies'.[1]
- [Footnote: when called set Arthur 'in this chayre'. He then bids Arthur (13) 'take
the benefice of the faire evening', and 'Enter Arthur' who is later (131) bid 'Goe in with me'. K. J. IV. i has precisely analogous indications, except that the attendants stand (2) 'within the arras', until Hubert stamps 'Vpon the bosome of the ground'. In Rich. III, I. iv, Clarence talks with his keeper, and sleeps. Murderers enter, to whom the keeper says (97), 'Here are the keies, there sits the Duke a sleepe'. They stab him, threaten to 'chop him in the malmsey but in the next roome' (161, 277), and bear the body out. In Rich. II, V. v (at Pontefract) Richard muses on 'this prison where I liue'. He is visited by a groom of his stable (70), 'where no man neuer comes, but that sad dog, That brings me foode'. Then (95) 'Enter one to Richard with meate' and (105) 'The murderers rush in', and (119) the bodies are cleared away. Sir T. More, sc. xvi, 'Enter Sir Thomas Moore, the Lieutenant, and a seruant attending as in his chamber in the Tower'; Lord Cromwell, V. v, 'Enter Cromwell in the Tower. . . . Enter the Lieutenant of the Tower and officers. . . . Enter all the Nobles'; Dead Man's Fortune, plot (Henslowe Papers, 134), 'Here the laydes speakes in prysoun'; Death of R. Hood, IV. i:
Brand. Come, come, here is the door.
Lady Bruce. O God, how dark it is.
Brand. Go in, go in; it's higher up the stairs. . . .
He seems to lock a door.
In Old Fortunatus, 2572, Montrose says of Ampedo, 'Drag him to yonder
towre, there shackle him'. Later (2608) Andelocia is brought to join
him in 'this prison' and the attendants bid 'lift in his legs'. The brothers
converse in 'fetters'. In 1 Oldcastle, IV. iv, v (a continuous scene), 'Enter
the Bishop of Rochester with his men, in liuerie coates'. They have
brought him 'heere into the Tower' (1965) and may 'go backe vnto the
Porters Lodge' or attend him 'here without'. But they slip away. The
Bishop calls the Lieutenant and demands to see Oldcastle. A message
is sent to Oldcastle by Harpoole. Then (1995), 'Enter sir Iohn Oldcastle',
and while the Bishop dismisses the Lieutenant, Harpoole communicates
a plot 'aside' to Oldcastle. Then the Bishop addresses Oldcastle,
and as they talk Oldcastle and Harpoole lay hands upon him.
They take his upper garments, which Oldcastle puts on. Harpoole says
(2016) 'the window that goes out into the leads is sure enough' and he
will 'conuay him after, and bind him surely in the inner room'. Then
(2023) 'Enter seruing men againe'. Oldcastle, disguised as the Bishop,
comes towards them, saying, 'The inner roomes be very hot and close'.
Harpoole tells him that he will 'downe vpon them'. He then pretends
to attack him. The serving-men join in, and (2049) 'Sir John escapes'.
The Lieutenant enters and asks who is brawling 'so neare vnto the
entrance of the Tower'. Then (2057) 'Rochester calls within', and as
they go in and bring him out bound, Harpoole gets away; cf. p. 62, n. 2.
Look About You, sc. v, is a similar scene in the Fleet, partly in Gloucester's
chamber (811), the door of which can be shut, partly (865) on a bowling
green. Analogous to some of the prison scenes is Alarum for London,
sc. xii, in which a Burgher's Wife shows Van End a vault where her
wealth is hid, and (1310) 'She pushes him downe', and he is stoned there.]*
- ↑ Bacon and Bungay, I. ii. 172, 'Enter frier Bacon', with others, says 'Why flocke you thus to Bacon's secret cell?', and conjures; II. ii is in a street, but Bacon says (603) 'weele to my studie straight', and II. iii begins (616), 'Bacon and Edward goes into the study', where Edward
