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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

Note 389 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 3)

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E. M. O. II. i (where personages standing ‘under this Tarras’ watch action under a window); Devil’s Charter, III. ii, ‘Alexander out of a Casement’; M. Devil of Edmonton, V. ii. 59, ‘D’yee see yon bay window?’ Miseries of Enforced Marriage (Dodsley4), iv, p. 540 (‘Here’s the sign of the Wolf, and the bay-window’); T. N. K. II. i, ii; Catiline, III. v; Philaster, II. iv; Second Maiden’s Tragedy, V. i. 2004, ‘Leonella above in a gallery with her love Bellarius’ ... (2021) ‘Descendet Leonela’; Duchess of Malfi, V. v; Hen. VIII, V. ii. 19, ‘Enter the King, and Buts, at a Windowe above’, with ‘Let ’em alone, and draw the curtaine close’ (34); Pericles, II. ii (where Simonides and Thaisa ‘withdraw into the gallerie’, to watch a tilting supposed behind, as in the sixteenth-century Soliman and Perseda; cf. p. 96). So, too, in T. N. K. V. iii, the fight between Palamon and Arcite takes place within; Emilia will not see it, and it is reported to her on the main stage.

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