Problem solved?

This is a continuation of yesterday's post.  Romeo and Juliet was written sometime in the 1590s and was not an immediate success - indeed Samuel Pepys described it as "the worst that I ever heard in my life".  So initially it was very little performed. After the execution of Charles I in 1649 the Puritans closed all the theatres and it wasn't until Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660 that theatreland sprang to life again.  One of the first popular plays to be put on was The History and Fall of Caius Marius by one Thomas Otway. This was set in ancient Rome but was a shameless rip-off of Romeo and Juliet - it even contains the priceless line "Oh Marius, Marius, wherefore art thou Marius?"  But by now the idea of balconies had spread to Britain, so when the heroine Lavinia has her conversation with Marius in the garden below, she is described as being in the balcony.  And when Romeo and Juliet was revived soon after, it took up this idea as being far more stageworthy, allowing Juliet to be outside and fully visible to the audience.  And there you are.