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... stage ; the audience looks at the play through a large hole in this wall . The hole is usually about thirty feet wide and thirty feet high and in many theatres is decorated to look like a gilt frame , within which the play is seen as a ...
... stage ; the audience looks at the play through a large hole in this wall . The hole is usually about thirty feet wide and thirty feet high and in many theatres is decorated to look like a gilt frame , within which the play is seen as a ...
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... stage directions than are customarily given in Shakespearian texts , most of which copy the directions of Nicholas Rowe in the first edited collection of the plays , published 1709 . In The New Readers ' Shakespeare , therefore ...
... stage directions than are customarily given in Shakespearian texts , most of which copy the directions of Nicholas Rowe in the first edited collection of the plays , published 1709 . In The New Readers ' Shakespeare , therefore ...
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... stages . By this means the action proceeds with no delay whatever . Launcelot goes down from the balcony with her letter , and meets Lorenzo and his friends on the main stage below . In Scene 8 ( Act II , Scene V ) Shylock can either ...
... stages . By this means the action proceeds with no delay whatever . Launcelot goes down from the balcony with her letter , and meets Lorenzo and his friends on the main stage below . In Scene 8 ( Act II , Scene V ) Shylock can either ...
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actors Arragon audience bag-pipe Bellario Belmont blood bond break casket choose chooseth Christian Colchis comes court curtain daughter deserves devil DOCTOR DOCTOR'S CLERK doth Duke Elizabethan Theatre eyes fair Fair ladies father fear fool forfeit fortune gentle gentleman give gold GRATIANO hand hast hath hear heart heaven honour husband Illyria Jew's Jew's house judge Julius Cæsar justice lady Launcelot Gobbo leave letter look lord Bassanio madam Master Launcelot means Merchant of Venice mercy merry mind mistress Morocco never Nicholas Rowe night oath Padua peize play Portia's servants pray thee Prince Proscenium ring Salanio and Salarino Salerio SCENE 12 ACT SCENE 14 ACT Shakespeare shalt SHYLOCK sola soul speak spirit stage stand STEPHANO suitors swear sweet tell thing thou Three thousand ducats to-night Tripolis Tubal unto Venetian wife words young younker