peculiar elizabethan stage directions

  • enter hieronimo; he knocks up the curtain
  • hell is discovered
  • volpone peeps from behind a traverse
  • eugenius discovered sitting loaded with many irons; a lampe burning by him; then enter clowne with a piece of browne bread and a garret root
  • a couch discovered with the duke on it
  • enter lopez at a table with jewels and money upon it, an egg roasting by a candle
  • exit orestes dragging clytemnestra’s body
  • enter gloucester and buckingham in rotten armour, marvelous ill-favoured
  • haughty, centaur, mavis, mrs otter, epicene, trusty, having discovered part of the scene above
  • enter giovanni and annabella lying on a bed
  • nuns discovered singing
  • dashing of brains heard within

and of course, the always-intriguing cue from the winter’s tale

  • exit, pursued by a bear
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