A World Below
type: Item
label: De onderwereld @nl
label: Die Unterwelt @de
label: Svět tam dole @cs
label: Un mondo di sotto @it
label: Un mundo por debajo @es
label: En undre värld @sv
description: Lifts, traps and Hell beneath the stage
description: Liften, luiken en de hel onder het podium @nl
description: Aufzüge, Klappen und die Hölle" unter der Bühne" @de
description: Zdviže, propadliště a peklo pod jevištěm @cs
description: Ascensori, trappole e inferno sotto il palco @it
description: Elevadores, trampillas e Infierno bajo el escenario. @es
description: Hissar, falluckor och helvetet under scenen @sv
Canon story number: 21
Canon story code: A.03
time frame: Renaissance
Canon story topic: Stage mechanics and set construction
Field: stage mechanics and sets
Link to internal Canonbase page: A_World_Below
Link to internal Canonbase page: De_onderwereld
Instance of: Canon stories
Canon story description: As well as its practical functions, in Renaissance theatre the space beneath the stage – accessed by traps and lifts – could represent Hell, the world of the dead, and the supernatural, as part of a cosmological conception of the theatre space.
Canon story refers to: Globe Theatre [London, UK]
Canon story refers to: Corral de comedias (Madrid)
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