There's been a convention in the theater world to think of the division between audience and spectacle as a fourth wall, a wall that the playwright tries to eliminate through the force of his drama.

Away, away, no time ſhalbe omitted, / That will be time and may by vs befitted.

[…]that noman nowe, be he neuer ſo ignorante, can thinke, he maie iuſtely be excuſed.

He had a cleft chin, or as Matt whispered to me, a butt chin.