![]() ![]() A large door, half open to let in the spectators. The entrance to the theater is in the center of the background, under the gallery of the boxes. ![]() An improvised buffet ornamented with little lusters, vases, glasses, plates of tarts, cakes, bottles, etc. No seats in the pit of the hall, which is the real stage of the theater at the back of the pit, i.e., on the right foreground, some benches forming steps, and underneath, a staircase which leads to the upper seats. Two rows, one over the other, of side galleries: the highest divided into boxes. There are broad steps from the stage to the hall on either side of these steps are the places for the violinists. Above a harlequin’s mantle are the royal arms. The curtain is composed of two tapestries which can be drawn aside. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. The crowd, troopers, burghers (male and female), marquises, musketeers, pickpockets, pastry-cooks, poets, Gascons cadets, actors (male and female), violinists, pages, children, soldiers, Spaniards, spectators (male and female), precieuses, nuns, etc.Ī Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. Translated from the French by Gladys Thomas and Mary F. ![]()
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