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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

Note 636 — BOOK V PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS

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A Shrew, ind. i, ‘San.’ for speaker; The Shrew (F1), ind. i. 88, ‘Sincklo’ for speaker; 3 Hen. VI (F1), I. ii. 48, ‘Enter Gabriel’; III. i. 1, ‘Enter Sinklo, and Humfrey’; R. J. (Q2), IV. v. 102, ‘Enter Will Kemp’; M. N. D. (F1), V. i. 128, ‘Tawyer with a Trumpet before them’; 1 Hen. IV (Q1), I. ii. 182 (text, not s.d.), ‘Falstaffe, Haruey, Rossill, and Gadshil, shall rob those men that we haue already waylaid’ (cf. II. ii); 2 Hen. IV (Q1), V. iv. 1, ‘Enter Sincklo and three or foure officers’; M. Ado (F1), II. iii. 38, ‘Enter Prince, Leonato, Claudio and Iacke Wilson’; M. Ado (Q and F), IV. ii, ‘Cowley’ and ‘Kemp’ for speakers; T.N.K. v. 3, ‘T. Tucke: Curtis’, IV. ii. 75, ‘Enter Messenger, Curtis’; 1 Antonio and Mellida, IV. i. 30, ‘Enter Andrugio, Lucio, Cole, and Norwood’; for other examples, cf. pp. 227, 271, 285, 295, 330, and vol. iv, p. 43. The indications of speakers by the letters E. and G. in All’s Well, II. i; III. i, ii, vi, may have a similar origin. The names of actors are entered in the ‘plots’ after those of the characters represented (cf. Henslowe Papers, 127).

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