It’s certainly true that large properties and set pieces on the early modern stage were few and far between. Special structures like hell-mouths and burning cities were occasionally used; but it’s very unlikely that scenes like those set in As You Like It’s Forest of Arden would have been littered with fake trees. The less furniture, the more fluid the performance – a rule of thumb which would certainly have made staging a play like Antony and Cleopatra, with all its back-and-forth between Rome, Egypt, and the sea, all the easier.