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The mediaeval stage, volume 2 (of 2)

Note 460 — Chapter XXIII · MORALITIES, PUPPET-PLAYS, AND PAGEANTS

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Lanthorn Leatherhead says of his puppets, ‘I am the mouth of them all’; cf. Hamlet, iii. 2. 256 ‘I could interpret between you and your love, if I could see the puppets dallying’; Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 1. 100 ‘O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet! Now will he interpret to her.’

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