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To look at the Elizabethan theatre through Shakespeare's internal plays is to, as Polonius advises, "by indirections find directions out".
Seldom to be taken straight, these internal plays nonetheless reveal the aspects of presentation that regularly attracted Shakespeare's attention.
Performance in these internal plays is always unsatisfactory in some respect, and the audience must for the most part read Shakespeare's own views on theatrical matters in reverse of these mirror stages.
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The internal play appears frequently in the early plays The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Indeed, the characters here complain a lot about their author as the internal play shoots off into flights of rococo imagery and disruptive changes of tone.
Then everyone would be free to make some internal play on the words "papal bull" and continue to forge lives built on a sense of common humanity instead of on greed, political expediency and a strange kind of quisling arrogance.
No players could be more hopeless than Nick Bottom, the weaver, and his amateur friends, who, in the hope of winning a small pension, perform the internal play, Pyramus and Thisbe, to celebrate the triple marriage of Duke Theseus and two of his courtiers.
The actress playing Juliet in the internal play proved to be a fine singer but a poor actress; she was replaced by Helena Scott.
This enabled me to hit my internal "pause" button to listen and think about what is being said to me, as well as hit the internal "play" button to speak and take action in varying situations when deemed necessary and appropriate.
The song was liked in part due to the novelty of its setting: it begins with Bob singing from the light bridge high above the stage; following a blackout the internal play performers take it up on the stage below, and following another blackout, the performers are seen in their workout clothes, at a rehearsal some weeks later.
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