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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

Note 163 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 2)

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T. G. IV. ii (cf. IV. iii. 16, ‘Now must we to her window’, and III. i. 35, 114, where Valentine has a rope-ladder to scale Silvia’s window ‘in an upper tower’ and ‘aloft, far from the ground’); IV. iv. 91, ‘That’s her chamber’; R. J. (orchard scenes), II. ii; III. v, ‘Enter Romeo and Juliet at the window’ (Q1 where Q2 has ‘aloft’; on the difficulty presented by Juliet’s chamber, cf. p. 94); M. V. II. vi. 1, ‘This is the penthouse vnder which Lorenzo Desired us to make a stand’ ... ‘Jessica aboue’ (s.d.) ... ‘Descend, for you must be my torch-bearer’ ... ‘Enter Jessica’ (having come down within from the casement forbidden her by Shylock and advised by Lancelot in II. v); Englishmen for my Money, sc. ix (where Vandalle, come to woo Pisaro’s daughter in the dark, is drawn up in a basket and left dangling in mid-air, while later (1999) Pisaro is heard ‘at the window’ and ‘Enter Pisaro aboue’); Two A. Women, 1495, ‘Enter Mall in the window’; Sp. Trag. II. ii, where spies ‘in secret’ and ‘aboue’ overhear the loves of Horatio and Belimperia below. Lovers are not concerned in Sp. Trag. III. ii, ‘Enter Hieronimo ... A Letter falleth’; III. ix, ‘Belimperia, at a window’; The Shrew, V. i. 17, ‘Pedant lookes out of the window’.

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