Sometimes an actor would come through the "middle door", which really referred to the main floor curtains of the tiring-house that led directly onto center stage.
A huge ruff about his neck wrapped in his great head like a wicker cage, a little hat with brims like the wings of a doublet, wherein he wore a jewel of glass, as broad as a chancery seal.
Then to the Curtain, where, as at the rest, He notes that action down that likes him best. This stage was used by actors who were in a scene but not directly involved in the immediate action of the play, and it was also used when a scene took place in an inner room.
On 28 Decemberwhile Allen was celebrating Christmas at his country home, carpenter Peter Streetsupported by the players and their friends, dismantled The Theatre beam by beam and transported it to Street's waterfront warehouse near Bridewell. His brother, Richard Burbage, was an actor.
Perhaps more than any other playhouse, the Globe has a story to tell in terms of how it came into existence. These floor length drapes or dyed cloth hangings were suspended from the ceiling, concealing the actor.
In the Elizabethan theatre extraordinary amounts of money were spent on costumes and the Globe's storage area would have been overflowing with beautiful clothing, not unlike the kind listed in Henslowe's Diary, as he took inventory at the Rose.
Atop the huts of the Globe and of every Bankside theatre stood the playhouse flagpole. The lofts holding the props and instruments were always closed off from the public.
However, there was dispute over the lease of 'the Theatre'.
On this stage, there was a trap door for use by performers to enter from the "cellarage" area beneath the stage. Moreover, the plays often call for one character eavesdropping from behind a curtain or door.
The Burbage brothers could not raise enough money to pay for the new theatre.