It is characterized by a sensitive treatment of the available data and an objective presentation of the drama scene. But his most unambiguous measuring of the performance space is seen in the eighteen thousand gallon working pond next to the pavilion, complete with live ducks, fish, water-lilies and songbirds. Based on original records rather than scholarly reports, his study views its subject from the perspective of ancient theatergoers. The primary materials cited in the article are mostly new to modern scholarship. Historically, the performing arts as well as the visual spectacles of theater have not developed simultaneously or proportionally with the dramatic literature. The presentation of golden age drama has been marked by immaturity and reductive simplicity. For instance, ancient Greek performance caught up with its text only during the Hellenistic age, when Greek tragedy had long passed its golden age. The technical wonders that helped create illusionary stage images— proscenium arches, wing-and-shutter settings, painted-perspective designs, and the groove system—only became standard practice for the English Restoration theater, when the glories of Renaissance drama had already faded.