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As you sit there watching a performance of a Shakespeare, Johnson, or Marlowe play, the crowd will fade into the background. Instead, you will be struck by the diction. There are words and phrases that you will not find funny, but which will make the crowd roar with laughter. Your familiarity with the meanings of Shakespeare's words will rise and fall as you see and hear the actors' deliveries and notice the audience's reaction. That is the strange music of being so familiar with something that
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― The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
― The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
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ESTEBAN
I always thought the English a very proper nation.
ELOISE
Not theatrically—their drama is extremely course. Really those Elizabethans!
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― The Marquise
― The Marquise
