The word alarum is an archaic form of alarm. It was sometimes used as a call to arms in the stage directions of Elizabethan dramas. The term comes from the Italian all'armi and appears 89 times in Shakespeare's First Folio. Often explained as the off-stage sounds of conflict or disturbance, recent research suggests a bell or drum may have been used to rouse soldiers from sleep.
The word a:larum is a:n archaic form of alarm. It was sometimes used as a cal?l to arms in the stage directions. of Elizabethan dramas. The term comes from the Italian all'armi and appears 89 times in Shakespeare's First Folio. Often explained as the off-stage sounds of conflict or disturbance, recent research suggests a bell or drum may have been used to rouse soldiers from sleep.