Entertainment / Literature / Tiring-House: An enclosed area in an Elizabethan theater where the actors awaited their cue to go on stage, changed their costumes, and stored stage props. The term is an abbreviation of 'attiring house' or 'attiring room.' This structure was located at the back of the stage and opened out onto the stage from two or more doors in the frons scenae.
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Entertainment / Literature / Within: In the stage directions for Shakespeare's plays, a 'noise within' indicates offstage sound effects such as shouts, drums, and trumpets. These noises were produced typically in the tiring-house. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Frons Scenae: At the back of the stage, this wall faced the audience and blocked the view of the players' tiring-house. In Shakespeare's heydey, the Globe Theater had two doors flanking the central discovery space MORE