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- Title
A Disguised Stage Direction in the Towneley Second Shepherds’ Play?
- Authors
Poole, Russell
- Abstract
The article discusses the stage directions that appear in the medieval Towneley plays. Scholar Alan H. Nelson argued that stage directions were little used because dramatists assumed that actors would be able to add gestures to the play according to the text and would not need specific directions. The N-Town manuscript of the Passion Plays is compared to the Towneley plays. The author argues that a stage direction appears in line 156 of the "Second Shepherds' Play," and considers the metrics and semantics of the line. Other topics include the meaning of the Middle English word "lost," which appears in line 156, and what is meant by the word "run" and if this is intended as a stage direction.
- Subjects
MEDIEVAL drama; STAGE directions; SECOND Shepherds' Play, The (Play); NELSON, Alan H.; PASSION plays; RHYTHM in the English language; SEMANTICS in the English language; DRAMA criticism
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2010, Vol 57, Issue 3, p315
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjq093