What Donne
recalls is a stage deserted by the actors but cumbered with furniture
and decorations.
recalls is a stage deserted by the actors but cumbered with furniture
and decorations.
John Donne
Of Ibrahim Khan, the Governor of Surat after Zufilkhar
Khan, he writes: 'He was good but soe easy that he does no good; wee
are not lesse afflicted with a block then before with a storck. ' _The
Embassy, &c. _ (Hakl. Soc. ), i. 82.
l. 8. _thy mistresse glasse. _ This poem, like the last, is _probably_
addressed to Christopher Brooke, but it is not so headed in any
edition or MS. The Grolier Club editor ascribes the first heading to
both.
l. 14. _or like ended playes. _ This suggests that the Elizabethan
stage was not so bare of furniture as used to be stated, and also that
furniture was not confined to the curtained-off rear-stage.
What Donne
recalls is a stage deserted by the actors but cumbered with furniture
and decorations.
l. 16. _a frippery_, i. e. 'A place where cast-off clothes are sold',
O. E. D. 'Oh, ho, Monster; wee know what belongs to a frippery. '
_Tempest_, IV. i. 225. Here the rigging has the appearance of an
old-clothes shop.
l. 17. _No use of lanthornes.
Khan, he writes: 'He was good but soe easy that he does no good; wee
are not lesse afflicted with a block then before with a storck. ' _The
Embassy, &c. _ (Hakl. Soc. ), i. 82.
l. 8. _thy mistresse glasse. _ This poem, like the last, is _probably_
addressed to Christopher Brooke, but it is not so headed in any
edition or MS. The Grolier Club editor ascribes the first heading to
both.
l. 14. _or like ended playes. _ This suggests that the Elizabethan
stage was not so bare of furniture as used to be stated, and also that
furniture was not confined to the curtained-off rear-stage.
What Donne
recalls is a stage deserted by the actors but cumbered with furniture
and decorations.
l. 16. _a frippery_, i. e. 'A place where cast-off clothes are sold',
O. E. D. 'Oh, ho, Monster; wee know what belongs to a frippery. '
_Tempest_, IV. i. 225. Here the rigging has the appearance of an
old-clothes shop.
l. 17. _No use of lanthornes.
