Note 544 — Chapter XXIV · PLAYERS OF INTERLUDES
Reading edition
Medwall’s Nature is divided into two parts, for performance on different days. But Medwall was a tedious person. Another interlude of his played in 1514 was so long and dull that Henry VIII went out before the end. The Four Elements was intended to take an hour and a half ‘but if you list you may leave out much of the said matter ... and then it will not be past three quarters of an hour of length.’