For those who haven't read Hilary Mantel's Booker-Prizewinning novel, WOLF
HALL, here for your delectation are the quotations that begin the book:
"There are three kinds of scenes, one called the tragic, second the comic,
third the satyric. Their decorations are different and unalike each other in
scheme. Tragic scenes are delineated with columns, pediments, statues and
other objects suited to kings; comic scenes exhibit private dwellings, with
balconies and views representing rows of windows, after the manner of
ordinary dwellings; satyric scenes are decorated with trees, caverns,
mountains and other rustic objects delineated in landscape style."
--VITRUVIUS, De Architectura, on the theatre, c. 27BC
"These be the names of the players:
Felicity Cloaked Collusion
Liberty Courtly Abusion
Measure Folly
Magnificence Adversity
Fancy Poverty
Counterfeit Countenance Despair
Crafty Conveyance Mischief
Good Hope
Redress
Circumspection
Perseverence
Magnificence: an Interlude
JOHN SKELTON, c.1520
I read both these quotations and of course couldn't help but think of
magnificent interludes in the Barn.
--Mike, your Crafty Conveyance