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the addition of a projecting gallery may have been a detail
in the remodeling of Henslowe In the spring of 1592, The
date and materials paid for—notably the two do*en "turned
ballyesters*96 point in that direction* Sixteenth and early
seventeenth century dramatists referred to the projecting
gallery as the "tarras," Its most frequent use was as a
battlemented wall or tower upon which kings, laiights, and
warriors were seen; so length was necessary in the tarras
in order to wake room for a large number of actors#
In the Globe the windows were moved, along with the
stage doors, to the flanking walle.97 The ends of the tarras
were formed by the sides of the projecting bay-windows. Be-
fore the days of inner stage* on the second level of the tir-
ing house, balustrades may have been replaced with a rail
supported by solid paling (shown in the De Witt view of the
Swan in 1596), or that specified in the Fortune contract as
a 8fence* for the first spectator-gallery.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word
"balcony* made its first appearance in 1618. Playwrights
soon took it up and applied it to the tarras,98
9%enalowe*s Diary, I, 8, cited by John Cranford Adams,
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John Grantord Mams, erg* elt t p« 253*
®®Ibid,, p. 255.
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Morris, Marjorie Rogers. A Proposed Reconstruction of the Elizabethan Globe Theater in Odessa, Texas, thesis, August 1950; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc163813/m1/78/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .