William B. Long offers a critique of prevailing assumptions on early modern acting and suggests how professional players transferred plays that originated on large public stages to palace rooms of various sizes. The actors were talented and very competent professionals. Elizabethan schooling was highly dependent upon rote memorization. Small boys had to memorize correctly and extensively, or they would have been caned. Young and adult players must have continued to memorize their lines almost effortlessly because that is the way they were trained. What did these players, accustomed as they were to playing in large public theatres, do when they moved to generally smaller areas allotted them at court? If they wished to avoid ludicrous displays of awkwardness, they adapted. For professional actors who were used to playing in varying venues when they toured provincial towns and cities, a stage platform of a few feet deeper or shallower would not have been of great consequence. Fortunately for us, a number of the rooms of court venues still exist intact. The surviving court playing venues are Hampton Court, St. James’ Windsor, and the Queen’s House Greenwich.