plateau

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The Etymology of "platea" shows it to be a street widening into a kind of place, as we often find in the old country towns of Southern Europe.—R.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

On the Elizabethan stage the front stage is the platea, the inner and upper stages the domus or loca.

From The Facts About Shakespeare by Nielson, William Allan

On the medieval stage there was a neutral place or platea and special localized and propertied places called sedes, domus, loca.

From The Facts About Shakespeare by Nielson, William Allan