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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

Note 205 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 2)

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Fair Em, sc. iv, ‘Enter Manvile ... Enter Valingford at another door ... Enter Mountney at another door’; Patient Grissell, 1105, ‘Enter Vrcenze and Onophrio at seuerall doores, and Farneze in the mid’st’; Trial of Chivalry, sign. I_{3}v, ‘Enter at one dore ... at the other dore ... Enter in the middest’. Examples from seventeenth-century public theatres are Four Prentices of London, prol., ‘Enter three in blacke clokes, at three doores’; Travels of 3 English Brothers, p. 90, ‘Enter three seuerall waies the three Brothers’; Nobody and Somebody, 1322, ‘Enter at one doore ... at another doore ... at another doore’; Silver Age, V. ii, ‘Exeunt three wayes’. It may be accident that these are all plays of Queen Anne’s men, at the Curtain or Red Bull. For the middle entrance in private theatres, cf. p. 132.

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