When a run is paddocked, shepherds are not required;—but boundary-riders are employed, each of whom is supplied with two horses, and these men are responsible not only for the sheep but for the fences.

It is also a tool for communication, both to your actors and your audience, because the way in which the groundplan shapes the space reveals much about the how the director and designers view the possible uses of the space, its owner(s), and its purpose. The groundplan provides you with the opportunity to create a variety of physical relationships among the characters onstage and shapes the possible patterns of movement that the characters might follow during the action.

\Ve critics, as you must have long ago observed, have our funny little ways; and one of them is that we always keep some Ologist or other on the premises.

Griefe brought to numbers cannot be ſo fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verſe.