Discovery scenes without a Discovery Space on the Early Modern stage

Abstract

Dataset of all instances of 'discovery scenes' in Elizabethan, Jacobean and Carolingian plays. The data is searchable in terms of the characteristics of discoveries and the practicalities of staging them with only two entrance-points (one of which houses the discovery). The data is summarised (sheet 3) to elucidate the principal staging patterns.All instances of 'discovery scenes' in Elizabethan, Jacobean and Carolingian plays were analysed for their practical staging implications. Various data columns enable sorting of entries to elucidate staging patterns. Xcel spreadsheet, original texts from EEBO