The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

by E. K. Chambers

[634] Mönkemeyer, 73.

[635] T. N. K. I. iii. 69, ‘2 Hearses ready with Palamon: and Arcite: the 3 Queenes. Theseus: and his Lordes ready’, i.e. ready for I. iv, which begins 42 lines later; and again I. iv. 29, ‘3 Hearses ready’, for I. v, beginning 24 lines later. So too Bussy D’Ambois (1641, not 1607 ed.), I. i. 153, ‘Table, Chesbord and Tapers behind the Arras’, ready for I. ii.

[636] 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).

[637] Alphonsus, prol. 1, ‘after you haue sounded thrise’; 1938, ‘Exit Venus. Or, if you can conueniently, let a chaire come down from the top of the stage’; James IV, 1463, ‘Enter certaine Huntsmen, if you please, singing’; 1931, ‘Enter, from the widdowes house, a seruice, musical songs of marriages, or a maske, or what prettie triumph you list’; Three Lords and Three Ladies of London, sig. C, ‘Here Simp[licitie] sings first, and Wit after, dialoguewise, both to musicke if ye will’; Locrine, I. i. 1, ‘Let there come foorth a Lion running after a Beare or any other beast’; Death of R. Hood, III. ii, ‘Enter or aboue [Hubert, Chester]’; 2 Hen. VI, IV. ii. 33, ‘Enter Cade [etc.] with infinite numbers’; IV. ix. 9, ‘Enter Multitudes with Halters about their Neckes’; T. A. I. i. 70, ‘as many as can be’; Edw. I, 50, ‘Enter ... and others as many as may be’; Sir T. More, sc. ix. 954, ‘Enter ... so many Aldermen as may’; What You Will, v. 193, ‘Enter as many Pages with torches as you can’.

[638] Mönkemeyer, 63, 91.

[639] Pollard, Sh. F. 79.

[640] e.g. R. J. (Q₁), III. i. 94, ‘Tibalt vnder Romeos arme thrusts Mercutio in and flyes’; III. ii. 32, ‘Enter Nurse wringing her hands, with the ladder of cordes in her lap’; IV. v. 95, ‘They all but the Nurse goe foorth, casting Rosemary on her and shutting the Curtens’.

[641] Cf. ch. xxi, pp. 133, 136.

[642] Pollard, Sh. F. 71; Van Dam and Stoffel, William Shakespeare, Prosody and Text, 274; Chapters on English Printing, Prosody, and Pronunciation.

[643] R. B. McKerrow, introd. xiv, to Barnes, Devil’s Charter.