THEATRE IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN (1594–6)

AUSTRIA: What the deuill art thou?
BASTARD: One that wil play the devill sir with you / 2.1.134–5 TLN 434–5

BASTARD: By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you kings,
And stand securely on their battelments,
As in a Theatre, whence they gape and point
At your industrious Scenes and acts of death. / 2.1.373–6 TLN 687–90

PEMBROKE: This acte, is as an ancient tale new told,
And, in the last repeating, troublesome,\\

BASTARD: According to the faire-play of the world,
Let me haue audience / 5.2.118–9 TLN 2372–3

RICHARD: For within the hollow Crowne
That rounds the mortall Temples of a King,
Keepes Death his Court, and there the Antique sits
Scoffing his State, and grinning at his Pompe,
Allowing him a breath, a little Scene,\\

SCROOP: I play the Torturer, by small and small\\

CARLISLE: The blood of English shall manure the ground,
And future Ages groane for this foule Act / 4.1.137–8 TLN 2057–8

ABBOT: A wofull Pageant haue we here beheld / 4.1.321 TLN 2246

DUKE OF YORK: As in a Theatre, the eyes of men,
After a well-grac’d Actor leaues the Stage,
Are idlely bent on him that enters next,
Thinking his prattle to be tedious:
Euen so, or with much more contempt, mens eyes\\

BOLINGBROKE: Our Scene is alter’d from a serious thing,\\

RICHARD: Thus play I in one Prison, many people,\\

FALSTAFF: No, not so much as will serue to
be Prologue to an Egge and Butter / 1.2.20–21 TLN 134–5

PRINCE HAL: But Francis, darest thou be so valiant, as
to play the coward with thy Indenture / 2.4.46 TLN 1009–10

PRINCE HAL: call in Falstaffe, Ile play Percy, and that damn’d Brawne
shall play Dame Mortimer his wife / 2.4.109–10 TLN 1072–3

FALSTAFF: shall we haue a Play extempory / 2.4.279–80 TLN 1235

HOSTESS: O rare, he doth it as like one of these harlotry
Players, as euer I see / 2.4.395–6 TLN 1354–5

PRINCE HAL: Dost thou speake like a King? doe thou stand
for mee, and Ile play my Father / 2.4.433–4 TLN 1391–2

FALSTAFF: Out you Rogue, play out the Play / 2.4.484 TLN 1443

FALSTAFF: Well said Hal, to it Hal. Nay you shall finde no
Boyes play heere, I can tell you / 5.4.75–6 TLN 3038–9

THEATRE IN THE SECOND PART OF HENRY THE FOURTH (1597–8)

RUMOUR: still vnfold
the Acts commenced on this Ball of Earth / Induction.4–5 TLN 8–9

NORTHUMB: And let this world no longer be a stage
To feede Contention in a ling’ring Act;\\

Reigne in all bosomes, that each heart being set
On bloody Courses, the rude Scene may end / 1.1.155–9 TLN 215–9

FALSTAFF: Away you Scullion, you Rampallian, you Fustil-
lirian: Ile tucke your Catastrophe / 2.1.59–60 TLN 664–5

PRINCE HAL: Well, thus we play the Fooles with the time, & the\\

DOLL TEARSHEET: Ile thrust my Knife in your mouldie
Chappes, if you play the sawcie Cuttle with me / 2.4.128–30 TLN 1156–7

FALSTAFF: I haue
done the part of a carefull Friend / 2.4.321–2 TLN 1346–7

KING HENRY IV: For all my Reigne, hath been but as a Scene
Acting that argument / 4.5.197–8 TLN 2733–4

KING HENRY V: My voice shall sound, as you do prompt mine eare / 5.2.119 TLN 3004

I was lately heere in the end of a displeasing Play, to pray your Patience \\

CHORUS: A Kingdome for a Stage, Princes to Act,
And Monarchs to behold the swelling Scene / Prologue.3–4 TLN 4–5

CHORUS: On this vnworthy Scaffold, to bring forth
So great an Obiect. Can this Cock-Pit hold
The vastie fields of France? Or may we cramme
Within this Woodden O the very Caskes\\

CHORUS: Admit me Chorus to this Historie;
Who Prologue-like, your humble patience pray,
Gently to heare, kindly to iudge our Play / Prologue.32–4 TLN 33–5

CANTERBURY: And your Great Vnckle’s, Edward the Black Prince,
Who on the French ground play’d a Tragedie / 1.2.105–6 TLN 252–3

CHORUS: Th’ abuse of distance, force a play:
The summe is payde, the Traitors are agreed;
The King is set from London, and the Scene
Is now transported (gentles) to Southampton,
There is the Play-house now, there must you sit,
And thence to France shall we conuey you safe,
And bring you backe: Charming the narrow seas
To giue you gentle Passe: for if we may,
Wee’l not offend one stomacke with our Play.
But till the King come forth, and not till then,
Vnto Southampton do we shift our Scene / 2.prologue.32–42 TLN 494–504

CHORUS: Thus with imagin’d wing our swift Scene flyes / 3.Prologue.1 TLN 1045

MONTJOY: Now wee speake vpon our Q / 3.6.123 TLN 1573

CHORUS: And so our Scene must to the Battaile flye:
Where, O for pitty, we shall much disgrace
With foure or five most vile and ragged foyles,
(Right ill dispos’d, in brawle ridiculous)
The Name of Agincourt: Yet sit and see,
Minding true things, by what their Mock’ries bee / 4.Prologue.48–53 TLN 1837–42

BOY: Bardolfe and Nym had tenne times more
valour, then this roaring diuell i’th olde play / 4.4.70–1 TLN 2449–50

CHORUS: Vouchsafe to those that haue not read the Story,
That I may prompt them / 5.Prologue.1–2 TLN 2851–2

CHORUS: my selfe haue play’d\\

PISTOL: Doeth Fortune play the huswife with me now? / 5.1.80 TLN 2975

CHORUS: Which oft our Stage hath showne / Epilogue.13 TLN 3380

THEATRE IN THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXT (1592)

MESSENGER: More than three houres the fight continued:
Where valiant Talbot, aboue humane thought
Enacted wonders with his Sword and Lance / 1.1.120–2 TLN 132–4

MESSENGER: Here had the Conquest fully been seal’d vp,
If Sir Iohn Falstaffe had not play’d the Coward / 1.1.130–1 TLN 142–3

TALBOT: accursed fatall Hand,
That hath contriu’d this wofull Tragedie / 1.4.76–7 TLN 547–8

ALENCON: All France will be repleat with mirth and ioy,
When they shall heare how we haue play’d the men / 1.6.15–6 TLN 656–7

MESSENGER: which of this Princely trayne
Call ye the Warlike Talbot, for his Acts\\

TALBOT: No, no, I am but shadow of my selfe:
You are deceiu’d, my substance is not here;
For what you see is but the smallest part,\\

WARWICK: You see what Mischiefe, and what Murther too,
Hath been enacted through your enmitie:\\

GLOUCESTER: So helpe me God, as I dissemble not / 3.1.140 TLN 1356

ALENCON: Pucell hath brauely play’d her part in this / 3.3.88 TLN 1684

GLOUCESTER: O monstrous Treachery: Can this be so?
That in alliance, amity and oathes,
There should be found such false dissembling guile? / 4.1.61–3 TLN 1808–10

WARWICK: My Lord of Yorke, I promise you the King
Prettily (me thought) did play the Orator / 4.1.174–5 TLN 1926–7

DUCHESS: And being a woman, I will not be slacke
To play my part in Fortune’s Pageant / 1.2.66–7 TLN 341–2

GLOUCESTER: And if my death might make this Iland happy,
And proue the Period of their Tyrannie,
I would expend it with all willingnesse.
But mine is made the Prologue to their Play:

For thousands more, that yet suspect no perill,
Will not conclude their plotted Tragedie / 3.1.148–51 TLN 1448–53

MARGARET: His father’s Acts, commenc’d in burning Troy / 3.2.118 TLN 1818

WARWICK: Euen so suspitious is this Tragedie / 3.2.195 TLN 1898

YORK: Whom have we heere? Buckingham to disturb me?
The king hath sent him, sure: I must dissemble / 5.1.12–3 TLN 3004–5

KING HENRY: What wilt thou on thy death-bed play the Ruffian,\\

RICHARD: Three times bestrid him: Thrice I led him off,
Perswaded him from any further act / 5.3.9–10 TLN 3330–1

EDWARD: I can better play the Orator / 1.2.2 TLN 312

KING HENRY: Full well hath Clifford plaid the Orator / 2.2.43 TLN 915

WARWICK: Why stand we like soft-hearted women heere,
Wayling our losses, whiles the Foe doth Rage,
And looke vpon, as if the Tragedie
Were plaid in iest, by counterfetting Actors / 2.3.25–8 TLN 1085–8

RICHARD: Ile play the Orator as well as Nestor,
Deceive more slily than Vlysses could,\\

KING LEWIS: Then further: all dissembling set aside,
Tell me for truth, the measure of his Loue\\

CLARENCE: you shall giue me leaue
To play the Broker in mine owne behalfe / 4.1.62–3 TLN 2089–90

KING EDWARD: Belike she minds to play the Amazon / 4.1.106 TLN 2136

KING HENRY: What Scene of death hath Rossius now to Acte? / 5.6.10 TLN 3084

RICHARD: The Midwife wonder’d, and the Women cri’de
O Iesus blesse vs, he is borne with teeth,
And so I was, which plainly signified,
That I should snarle, and bite, and play the dogge / 5.6.74–7 TLN 3150–3

KING EDWARD: And now what rests, but that we spend the time
With stately Triumphes, mirthfull Comicke shewes, \\

THEATRE IN THE TRAGEDY OF RICHARD THE THIRD (1592–3)

RICHARD: I, that am curtail’d of this faire Proportion,
Cheated of Feature by dissembling Nature / 1.1.18–9 TLN 20–1

RICHARD: My proud heart sues, and prompts my tongue to speake / 1.2.171 TLN 361

LADY ANNE: Arise Dissembler, though I wish thy death,\\

RICHARD: Having God, her Conscience, and these bars against me,
And I, no Friends to backe my suite withall,
But the plaine Diuell and dissembling lookes?\\

RICHARD: And thus I cloath my naked Villanie
With odde old ends, stolne forth of holy Writ,
And seeme a Saint, when most I play the deuill / 1.3.335–7 TLN 812–4

KING EDWARD: Dorset and Rivers, take each others hand,
Dissemble not your hatred, Sweare your loue / 2.1.7–8 TLN 1130–1

BOY: Thinke you my Vnkle did dissemble Grandam? / 2.2.31 TLN 1303

DUCHESS OF YORK: What meanes this Scene of rude impatience?
QUEEN ELIZABETH: To make an act of Tragicke violence / 2.2.38–9 TLN 1312–3

HASTINGS: But I shall laugh at this a twelue-month hence,
That they which brought me in my Masters hate
I liue to looke vpon their Tragedie / 3.2.57–9 TLN 1857–9

BUCKINGHAM: Had not you come vpon your Q my Lord
William, Lord Hastings, had pronounc’d your part;
I meane your Voice, for Crowning of the King / 3.4.26–8 TLN 1994–6
BUCKINGHAM: Tut, I can counterfeit the deepe Tragedian / 3.5.5 TLN 2089

BUCKINGHAM: Doubt not, my Lord, Ile play the Orator / 3.5.95 TLN 2182

BUCKINGHAM: Play the Maids part, still answer nay, and take it / 3.7.51 TLN 2264

MARGARET: A dire induction, am I witnesse to,
And will to France, hoping the consequence
Will proue as bitter, blacke, and Tragicall / 4.4.5–7 TLN 2775–7

DUCHESS OF YORK: Dead life, blind sight, poore mortall liuing ghost,
Woes Scene, Worlds shame, Graues due, by life vsurpt,\\

MARGARET: And the beholders of this franticke play,
Th’ adulterate Hastings, Riuers, Vaughan, Gray,\\

MARGARET: I call’d thee then, poore Shadow, painted Queen;
The presentation of but what I was;
The flattering Index of a direfull Pageant;
One heau’d a high, to be hurl’d downe below;
A mother onely mockt with two faire Babes;
A dreame of what thou wast, a garish Flagge
To be the ayme of euery dangerous Shot;
A signe of Dignity, a Breath, a Bubble;
A Queene in ieast, onely to fill the Scene / 4.4.83–91 TLN 2854–62

RICHARD: Vnder our Tents Ile play the Ease-dropper,\\

CATESBY: The King enacts more wonders then a man,\\

THEATRE IN The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight [All Is True] (1612–3)

Such Noble scoenes, as draw the Eye to flow\\

Those that come to see
Onely a show or two, and so agree,
The Play may passe: If they be still, and willing,
Ile vndertake may see away their shilling
Richly in two short houres. Onely they
That come to heare a Merry, Bawdy Play,
A noyse of Targets: Or to see a Fellow
In a long Motley Coate, garded with Yellow, \\

WOLSEY: What we oft doe best,
By sicke Interpreters (once weake ones) is
Not ours, or not allow’d; what worst, as oft
Hitting a grosser quality, is cride vp
For our best Act / 1.2.81–5 TLN 416–20

SURVEYOR: If (quoth he) I for this had beene committed,
As to the Tower, I thought; I would haue plaid
The Part my Father meant to act vpon \\

KING HENRY: the Honor of it
Does pay the Act of it / 3.2.181–2 TLN 2055–6

WOLSEY: But thou hast forc’d me
(Out of thy honest truth) to play the Woman / 3.2.429–30 TLN 2343–4

2ND GENTLEMAN: they are euer forward
In Celebration of this day with Shewes,
Pageants and Sights of Honor / 4.1.9–11 TLN 2388–90

KING HENRY: You play the Spaniell,\\

PORTER: These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse / 5.5.60–1 TLN 3318

Tis ten to one, this Play can neuer please
All that are heere: Some come to take their ease,
And sleepe an Act or two / Epilogue.1–3 TLN 3450–2

All the expected good w’are like to heare.
For this Play at this time, is onely in \\

THEATRE IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN (1594–6)

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AUSTRIA: What the deuill art thou? BASTARD: One that wil play the devill sir with you / 2.1.134–5 TLN 434–5 \\ BASTARD: By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you kings, And stand securely on their battelments, As in a Theatre, whence they gape and point At your industrious Scenes and acts of death. / 2.1.373–6 TLN 687–90 \\ PEMBROKE: This acte, is as an ancient tale new told, And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being vrged at a time vnseasonable / 4.2.18–20 TLN 1735–7 \\ BASTARD: According to the faire-play of the world, Let me haue audience / 5.2.118–9 TLN 2372–3 \\

THEATRE IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND (1595)

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RICHARD: For within the hollow Crowne That rounds the mortall Temples of a King, Keepes Death his Court, and there the Antique sits Scoffing his State, and grinning at his Pompe, Allowing him a breath, a little Scene, To Monarchize / 3.2.160–5 TLN 1520–5 \\ SCROOP: I play the Torturer, by small and small To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken / 3.2.198–9 TLN 1557–8 \\ CARLISLE: The blood of English shall manure the ground, And future Ages groane for this foule Act / 4.1.137–8 TLN 2057–8 \\ ABBOT: A wofull Pageant haue we here beheld / 4.1.321 TLN 2246 \\ DUKE OF YORK: As in a Theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac’d Actor leaues the Stage, Are idlely bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious: Euen so, or with much more contempt, mens eyes Did scowle on Richard / 5.2.23–8 TLN 2390–5 \\ BOLINGBROKE: Our Scene is alter’d from a serious thing, And now chang’d to The Begger and the King / 5.3.79–80 TLN 2580–1 \\ RICHARD: Thus play I in one Prison, many people, And none contented / 5.5.31–2 TLN 2697–8 \\

THEATRE IN THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH (1596–7)

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FALSTAFF: No, not so much as will serue to be Prologue to an Egge and Butter / 1.2.20–21 TLN 134–5 \\ PRINCE HAL: But Francis, darest thou be so valiant, as to play the coward with thy Indenture / 2.4.46 TLN 1009–10 \\ PRINCE HAL: call in Falstaffe, Ile play Percy, and that damn’d Brawne shall play Dame Mortimer his wife / 2.4.109–10 TLN 1072–3 \\ FALSTAFF: shall we haue a Play extempory / 2.4.279–80 TLN 1235 \\ HOSTESS: O rare, he doth it as like one of these harlotry Players, as euer I see / 2.4.395–6 TLN 1354–5 \\ PRINCE HAL: Dost thou speake like a King? doe thou stand for mee, and Ile play my Father / 2.4.433–4 TLN 1391–2 \\ FALSTAFF: Out you Rogue, play out the Play / 2.4.484 TLN 1443 \\ FALSTAFF: Well said Hal, to it Hal. Nay you shall finde no Boyes play heere, I can tell you / 5.4.75–6 TLN 3038–9 \\

THEATRE IN THE SECOND PART OF HENRY THE FOURTH (1597–8)

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RUMOUR: still vnfold the Acts commenced on this Ball of Earth / Induction.4–5 TLN 8–9 \\ NORTHUMB: And let this world no longer be a stage To feede Contention in a ling’ring Act; But let one spirit of the First-borne Caine \\ Reigne in all bosomes, that each heart being set On bloody Courses, the rude Scene may end / 1.1.155–9 TLN 215–9 \\ FALSTAFF: Away you Scullion, you Rampallian, you Fustil- lirian: Ile tucke your Catastrophe / 2.1.59–60 TLN 664–5 \\ PRINCE HAL: Well, thus we play the Fooles with the time, & the spirits of the wise, sit in the clouds, and mocke vs / 2.2.142–4 TLN 920–1 \\ DOLL TEARSHEET: Ile thrust my Knife in your mouldie Chappes, if you play the sawcie Cuttle with me / 2.4.128–30 TLN 1156–7 \\ FALSTAFF: I haue done the part of a carefull Friend / 2.4.321–2 TLN 1346–7 \\ KING HENRY IV: For all my Reigne, hath been but as a Scene Acting that argument / 4.5.197–8 TLN 2733–4 \\ KING HENRY V: My voice shall sound, as you do prompt mine eare / 5.2.119 TLN 3004 \\ I was lately heere in the end of a displeasing Play, to pray your Patience for it, and to promise you a Better / Epilogue.8–10 TLN 3332–3 \\

THEATRE IN THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE FIFT (1598–9)

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CHORUS: A Kingdome for a Stage, Princes to Act, And Monarchs to behold the swelling Scene / Prologue.3–4 TLN 4–5 \\ CHORUS: On this vnworthy Scaffold, to bring forth So great an Obiect. Can this Cock-Pit hold The vastie fields of France? Or may we cramme Within this Woodden O the very Caskes That did affright the Ayre at Agincourt / Prologue.10–4 TLN 11–5 \\ CHORUS: Admit me Chorus to this Historie; Who Prologue-like, your humble patience pray, Gently to heare, kindly to iudge our Play / Prologue.32–4 TLN 33–5 \\ CANTERBURY: And your Great Vnckle’s, Edward the Black Prince, Who on the French ground play’d a Tragedie / 1.2.105–6 TLN 252–3 \\

\\ CHORUS: Th’ abuse of distance, force a play: The summe is payde, the Traitors are agreed; The King is set from London, and the Scene Is now transported (gentles) to Southampton, There is the Play-house now, there must you sit, And thence to France shall we conuey you safe, And bring you backe: Charming the narrow seas To giue you gentle Passe: for if we may, Wee’l not offend one stomacke with our Play. But till the King come forth, and not till then, Vnto Southampton do we shift our Scene / 2.prologue.32–42 TLN 494–504 \\ CHORUS: Thus with imagin’d wing our swift Scene flyes / 3.Prologue.1 TLN 1045 \\ MONTJOY: Now wee speake vpon our Q / 3.6.123 TLN 1573 \\ CHORUS: And so our Scene must to the Battaile flye: Where, O for pitty, we shall much disgrace With foure or five most vile and ragged foyles, (Right ill dispos’d, in brawle ridiculous) The Name of Agincourt: Yet sit and see, Minding true things, by what their Mock’ries bee / 4.Prologue.48–53 TLN 1837–42 \\ BOY: Bardolfe and Nym had tenne times more valour, then this roaring diuell i’th olde play / 4.4.70–1 TLN 2449–50 \\ CHORUS: Vouchsafe to those that haue not read the Story, That I may prompt them / 5.Prologue.1–2 TLN 2851–2 \\ CHORUS: my selfe haue play’d The interim, by remembering you ‘tis past / 5.prologue.42–3 TLN 2892–3 \\ PISTOL: Doeth Fortune play the huswife with me now? / 5.1.80 TLN 2975 \\ CHORUS: Which oft our Stage hath showne / Epilogue.13 TLN 3380 \\

THEATRE IN THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXT (1592)

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MESSENGER: More than three houres the fight continued: Where valiant Talbot, aboue humane thought Enacted wonders with his Sword and Lance / 1.1.120–2 TLN 132–4 \\

MESSENGER: Here had the Conquest fully been seal’d vp, If Sir Iohn Falstaffe had not play’d the Coward / 1.1.130–1 TLN 142–3 \\ TALBOT: accursed fatall Hand, That hath contriu’d this wofull Tragedie / 1.4.76–7 TLN 547–8 \\ ALENCON: All France will be repleat with mirth and ioy, When they shall heare how we haue play’d the men / 1.6.15–6 TLN 656–7 \\ MESSENGER: which of this Princely trayne Call ye the Warlike Talbot, for his Acts So much applauded through the Realme of France? / 2.2.34–6 TLN 806–8 \\ TALBOT: No, no, I am but shadow of my selfe: You are deceiu’d, my substance is not here; For what you see is but the smallest part, And least proportion of Humanitie / 2.3.50–3 TLN 891–4 \\ WARWICK: You see what Mischiefe, and what Murther too, Hath been enacted through your enmitie: Then be at peace, except ye thirst for blood / 3.1.115–7 TLN 1331–3 \\ GLOUCESTER: So helpe me God, as I dissemble not / 3.1.140 TLN 1356 \\ ALENCON: Pucell hath brauely play’d her part in this / 3.3.88 TLN 1684 \\ GLOUCESTER: O monstrous Treachery: Can this be so? That in alliance, amity and oathes, There should be found such false dissembling guile? / 4.1.61–3 TLN 1808–10 \\ WARWICK: My Lord of Yorke, I promise you the King Prettily (me thought) did play the Orator / 4.1.174–5 TLN 1926–7 \\

THEATRE IN THE SECOND PART OF HENRY THE SIXT (1591)

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DUCHESS: And being a woman, I will not be slacke To play my part in Fortune’s Pageant / 1.2.66–7 TLN 341–2 \\ GLOUCESTER: And if my death might make this Iland happy, And proue the Period of their Tyrannie, I would expend it with all willingnesse. But mine is made the Prologue to their Play: \\ For thousands more, that yet suspect no perill, Will not conclude their plotted Tragedie / 3.1.148–51 TLN 1448–53 \\ MARGARET: His father’s Acts, commenc’d in burning Troy / 3.2.118 TLN 1818 \\ WARWICK: Euen so suspitious is this Tragedie / 3.2.195 TLN 1898 \\ YORK: Whom have we heere? Buckingham to disturb me? The king hath sent him, sure: I must dissemble / 5.1.12–3 TLN 3004–5 \\ KING HENRY: What wilt thou on thy death-bed play the Ruffian, And seeke for sorrow with thy Spectacles? / 5.1.164–5 TLN 3164–5 \\ RICHARD: Three times bestrid him: Thrice I led him off, Perswaded him from any further act / 5.3.9–10 TLN 3330–1 \\

THEATRE IN THE THIRD PART OF HENRY THE SIXT (1591)

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EDWARD: I can better play the Orator / 1.2.2 TLN 312 \\ KING HENRY: Full well hath Clifford plaid the Orator / 2.2.43 TLN 915 \\ WARWICK: Why stand we like soft-hearted women heere, Wayling our losses, whiles the Foe doth Rage, And looke vpon, as if the Tragedie Were plaid in iest, by counterfetting Actors / 2.3.25–8 TLN 1085–8 \\ RICHARD: Ile play the Orator as well as Nestor, Deceive more slily than Vlysses could, And like a Synon, take another Troy / 3.2.188–90 TLN 1712–4 \\ KING LEWIS: Then further: all dissembling set aside, Tell me for truth, the measure of his Loue Vnto our Sister Bona / 3.3.119–21 TLN 1857–9 \\ CLARENCE: you shall giue me leaue To play the Broker in mine owne behalfe / 4.1.62–3 TLN 2089–90 \\ KING EDWARD: Belike she minds to play the Amazon / 4.1.106 TLN 2136 \\ KING HENRY: What Scene of death hath Rossius now to Acte? / 5.6.10 TLN 3084 \\

RICHARD: The Midwife wonder’d, and the Women cri’de O Iesus blesse vs, he is borne with teeth, And so I was, which plainly signified, That I should snarle, and bite, and play the dogge / 5.6.74–7 TLN 3150–3 \\ KING EDWARD: And now what rests, but that we spend the time With stately Triumphes, mirthfull Comicke shewes, Such as befits the pleasure of the Court / 5.7.42–4 TLN 3213–15 \\

THEATRE IN THE TRAGEDY OF RICHARD THE THIRD (1592–3)

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RICHARD: I, that am curtail’d of this faire Proportion, Cheated of Feature by dissembling Nature / 1.1.18–9 TLN 20–1 \\ RICHARD: My proud heart sues, and prompts my tongue to speake / 1.2.171 TLN 361 \\ LADY ANNE: Arise Dissembler, though I wish thy death, I will not be thy Executioner / 1.2.185–6 TLN 378–9 \\ RICHARD: Having God, her Conscience, and these bars against me, And I, no Friends to backe my suite withall, But the plaine Diuell and dissembling lookes? And yet to winne her? all the world to nothing! / 1.2.234–8 TLN 431–4 \\ RICHARD: And thus I cloath my naked Villanie With odde old ends, stolne forth of holy Writ, And seeme a Saint, when most I play the deuill / 1.3.335–7 TLN 812–4 \\ KING EDWARD: Dorset and Rivers, take each others hand, Dissemble not your hatred, Sweare your loue / 2.1.7–8 TLN 1130–1 \\ BOY: Thinke you my Vnkle did dissemble Grandam? / 2.2.31 TLN 1303 \\ DUCHESS OF YORK: What meanes this Scene of rude impatience? QUEEN ELIZABETH: To make an act of Tragicke violence / 2.2.38–9 TLN 1312–3 \\ HASTINGS: But I shall laugh at this a twelue-month hence, That they which brought me in my Masters hate I liue to looke vpon their Tragedie / 3.2.57–9 TLN 1857–9 \\ BUCKINGHAM: Had not you come vpon your Q my Lord William, Lord Hastings, had pronounc’d your part; I meane your Voice, for Crowning of the King / 3.4.26–8 TLN 1994–6 BUCKINGHAM: Tut, I can counterfeit the deepe Tragedian / 3.5.5 TLN 2089 \\ BUCKINGHAM: Doubt not, my Lord, Ile play the Orator / 3.5.95 TLN 2182 \\ BUCKINGHAM: Play the Maids part, still answer nay, and take it / 3.7.51 TLN 2264 \\ MARGARET: A dire induction, am I witnesse to, And will to France, hoping the consequence Will proue as bitter, blacke, and Tragicall / 4.4.5–7 TLN 2775–7 \\ DUCHESS OF YORK: Dead life, blind sight, poore mortall liuing ghost, Woes Scene, Worlds shame, Graues due, by life vsurpt, Breefe abstract and record of tedious dayes / 4.4.26–8 TLN 2797–9 \\ MARGARET: And the beholders of this franticke play, Th’ adulterate Hastings, Riuers, Vaughan, Gray, Vntimely smother’d in their dusky Graues / 4.4.68–70 TLN 2839–41 \\ MARGARET: I call’d thee then, poore Shadow, painted Queen; The presentation of but what I was; The flattering Index of a direfull Pageant; One heau’d a high, to be hurl’d downe below; A mother onely mockt with two faire Babes; A dreame of what thou wast, a garish Flagge To be the ayme of euery dangerous Shot; A signe of Dignity, a Breath, a Bubble; A Queene in ieast, onely to fill the Scene / 4.4.83–91 TLN 2854–62 \\ RICHARD: Vnder our Tents Ile play the Ease-dropper, To heare if any meane to shrinke from me / 5.3.222–3 TLN 3682–3 \\ CATESBY: The King enacts more wonders then a man, Daring an opposite to euery danger / 5.4.2–3 TLN 3827–8 \\

THEATRE IN THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE EIGHT [All Is True] (1612–3)

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Such Noble scoenes, as draw the Eye to flow We now present / Prologue.4–5 TLN 5–6 \\ Those that come to see Onely a show or two, and so agree, The Play may passe: If they be still, and willing, Ile vndertake may see away their shilling Richly in two short houres. Onely they That come to heare a Merry, Bawdy Play, A noyse of Targets: Or to see a Fellow In a long Motley Coate, garded with Yellow, Will be deceyu’d / Prologue.9–17 TLN 10–8 \\ WOLSEY: What we oft doe best, By sicke Interpreters (once weake ones) is Not ours, or not allow’d; what worst, as oft Hitting a grosser quality, is cride vp For our best Act / 1.2.81–5 TLN 416–20 \\ SURVEYOR: If (quoth he) I for this had beene committed, As to the Tower, I thought; I would haue plaid The Part my Father meant to act vpon Th’ Vsurper Richard / 1.2.193–6 TLN 544–7 \\ KING HENRY: the Honor of it Does pay the Act of it / 3.2.181–2 TLN 2055–6 \\ WOLSEY: But thou hast forc’d me (Out of thy honest truth) to play the Woman / 3.2.429–30 TLN 2343–4 \\ 2ND GENTLEMAN: they are euer forward In Celebration of this day with Shewes, Pageants and Sights of Honor / 4.1.9–11 TLN 2388–90 \\ KING HENRY: You play the Spaniell, And thinke with wagging of your tongue to win me / 5.2.161–2 TLN 3195–6 \\ PORTER: These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse / 5.5.60–1 TLN 3318 \\ Tis ten to one, this Play can neuer please All that are heere: Some come to take their ease, And sleepe an Act or two / Epilogue.1–3 TLN 3450–2 \\ All the expected good w’are like to heare. For this Play at this time, is onely in The mercifull construction of good women / Epilogue.8–10 TLN 3457–9