Shakespeare and the Stage / With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory Notes

by Maurice Jonas

Q. A note of entrance for actors, because it is the first letter of quando—when, showing when to enter and speak. 1633. From Butler’s English Grammar. The word is printed both Qu and Cue in the Folios and quartos. All modern editions print cue.

The clock gives me my cue.

III, 2, 46.

MASQUED. VIZARDED.

For they must all be masqued and vizarded.

IV, 6, 40.

In the early days of the masque the performers always wore masks or vizards.

PART.

(Enter Sir Hugh Evans, disguised with others, as fairies.)

Trib, fairies; come! and remember your parts; be bold, I pray you; follow me into the pit, and when I give ords, do as I pid you; come come; trib, trib.