galleries.

_Stage._ With a stage and tiring-house to be made, erected,
and set up within the said frame; with a shadow or cover
over the said stage. Which stage shall be placed and set (as
also the staircases of the said frame) in such sort as is
prefigured in a plot thereof drawn. [The plot has been
lost.] And which stage shall contain in length forty and
three foot of lawful assize, and in breadth to extend to
the middle of the yard of the said house. The same stage to
be paled in below with good, strong, and sufficient new
oaken boards.... And the said stage to be in all other
proportions contrived and fashioned like unto the stage of
the said playhouse called the Globe.... And the said ...
stage ... to be covered with tile, and to have a sufficient
gutter of lead to carry and convey the water from the
covering of the said stage to fall backwards.

_Tiring-house._ With convenient windows and lights, glazed,
to the said tiring-house.

_Flooring._ And all the floors of the said galleries,
stories, and stage to be boarded with good and sufficient
new deal boards, of the whole thickness where need shall be.

_Columns._ All the principal and main posts of the said
frame and stage forward shall be square, and wrought
pilaster-wise, with carved proportions called satyrs to be
placed and set on the top of every of the said posts.

_Roof._ And the said frame, stage, and staircases to be
covered with tile.

_Miscellaneous._ To be in all other contrivations,
conveyances, fashions, thing and things, effected, finished,
and done, according to the manner and fashion of the said
house called the Globe.

[Footnote 444: For the full document see Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, p.
4.]

It is rather unfortunate for us that the building was to be in so many
respects a copy of the Globe, for that deprives us of further detailed
specifications; and it is unfortunate, too, that the plan or drawing
showing the arrangement of the stage was not preserved with the rest
of the document. Yet we are able to derive much exact information
from the contract; and with this information, at least two modern
architects have made reconstructions of the building.[445]

[Footnote 445: See the Bibliography. A model of the Fortune by Mr.
W.H. Godfrey is preserved in the Dramatic Museum of Columbia
Unive