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Article: "Speaking some words, but of no importance"? Stage directions, Thomas Heywood, and Edward IV.
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- Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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IN 1635, approaching the end of a career in the theater that had already spanned more than forty years, Thomas Heywood interrupted the bizarre concoction of folklore and spiritual wisdom he called The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells to deliver an uncharacteristically bitter attack on those who had, he felt, appropriated and undermined the native dramatic tradition. In this unlikely context, Heywood denounced writers who wished to restrict the playgoing public to an elite few--he has in his sights courtier poets like Carew and Davenant who "dare to measure mouthes for every bit / The Muse shall tast"--and insisted on the legitimacy of artistic judgments passed by "the ...
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