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Actors Onstage
CLEREMONT: HERE’S no lords nor ladies.
DION. Credit me, gentlemen, I wonder at it. They receiv’d strict charge from the King to attend here; besides, it was boldly published that no officer should forbid any gentleman that desired to attend and hear.
Beaumont and Fletcher, “Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding” (1608)
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“In the days when contact with the theatre meant exile from the best society, Beaumont and Fletcher, men from good families, dared to ally themselves with the stage as playwrights. ‘Philaster’ won them immortal praise.” (Editor, Harvard Classics)
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