Platt

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 466 words | Copyright

Platt, Elizabethan term for an outline, or ‘plot’, of a play, giving the main points of the action, the division into acts, and the actors' entrances and exits. Posted up behind the scenes during the performance, it was intended to help in the organization of calls and properties. It was a purely utilitarian device and not, like the scenario of the commedia dell'arte, a basis for improvisation. A few specimens have survived among Henslowe's papers.

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