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

This green plot shall be our stage.

III, 1, 4.

STUDY.

Have you the lion’s part written? Pray, if it be, give it me; I am slow of study.

I, 2, 69.

I am told that to study a part belongs to the theatrical vocabulary of to-day. Another proof of the conservatism of the English stage.

TIRING HOUSE.

This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn brake our tiring house.

III, 1, 4.