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Painting and Tapestries

from Stage Decoration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2025

Harry McCarthy
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University of Exeter
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It isn’t quite true to say that the stages and theatres within which Shakespeare worked were entirely devoid of decoration, however compelling the notion of the ‘bare stage’. We know from the contract for the building of the Fortune, which closely followed the Globe, that the playhouse’s interior woodwork was expected to be carved and painted – in some cases to appear like more expensive materials such as marble, in others to represent mythological figures like satyrs and nymphs (Gurr 2009, 151; Gurr 2011, 193–4).

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First published in: 2025

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