ABSTRACT
Act 2, scene 1 of Julius Caesar is a very long scene, lasting over 330 lines, in which Brutus is continuously on stage. Garden scenes are fairly common in early modern English plays, and this is the larger context that we must consider. A study of Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean garden scenes will reveal the kinds of event that usually take place in gardens, the way the locale is generally communicated to the audience, the usage of garden properties, and the significance of the stage direction 'Enter in a garden' and variants. This chapter suggests that many Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean garden scenes and references to gardens reflect in varying ways these traditional views of the garden. Early modern English plays, so far as they have been examined up to, provide no other garden scene where some special kind of headgear or attire might be related to the locale, except for those involving entrances of gardeners.
