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Thunder

from Special Effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2025

Harry McCarthy
In collaboration with
Judy Bae
Harry McCarthy
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
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The reference in the previous section to thunder made in the tiring house indicates that its production was largely unseen by the audience. As well as the drums this playgoer describes, thunder could also be produced by rolling a heavy cannonball along the floor of the tiring house or heavens. There is also evidence of a comparatively more high-tech system of rolling the ball back and forth through a wooden trough, into which different levels could be built to allow separate thunderclaps to sound whenever the ball dropped (G. Jones 2014, 36–7).

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Shakespeare's Stages , pp. 51 - 52
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
First published in: 2025

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