Serlio’s Comedy With Lighting

Serlio proposes three stage settings, for Comedy, Tragedy and for Satyr Play:
"... stages are built in three styles - Comic for performing comedies,
Tragic for tragedies and Setiric for satiers...

The left sketch is Serlio’s setting for “Comic type. ..this should be private houses…”
The right sketch endeavors to visualize the effect of the lighting described by Serlio.