...'two Armies . . . represented with four swords and bucklers';13 Jonson could sneer at the players who 'with three rusty swords, / And help of some few foot-and-half-foot words, / Fight over York, and Lancaster's long jars: / And in the tiring-house bring wounds, to scars' (Prologue to Every Man In His Humour, ll. 9-1...

...aspects of Elizabethan stagecraft - as, for example, its rendering of battles: he mocked actors who with three rusty swords And help of some few foot-and-half-foot words Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars.16 Shakespeare, through giving one of his actors a wooden play-sword in pointed contrast to the...

..."mouldy tale" singled out specifically in the Ode appended to The New Inn [1632]) that make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard, and weed, Past threescore years. (H&s 3:303)" The Tempest, too, comes under attack for its unnaturalness, especially in its depiction...

...In Every Man in His Humour he ridiculed the play that broke the unity of time: To make a child now swaddled to proceed Man, and then shoot up in one beard and weed Past threescore years. (7-9) He was equally hard on the play that used words and cheap effects as a substitute for the unity...

...purchase your delight at such a rate, s As, for it, he himself must justly hate. To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one...swords, And help of some few foot-and-half-foot words, 10 Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars : And in the tiring-house bring wounds to scars. He rather...

...purchase your delight at such a rate, As, for it, he himself must justly hate. To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one...foot-and-half-foot words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tiring-house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays, you will be pleas'd to see One...

...does relate to Shakespearian combat scenes is found in Jonson's prologue to Every Man in His Humour:* with three rusty swords, And help of some few foot-and-half-foot words, Fight over York, and Lancaster's long jars: And in the tiring-house bring wounds, to scars. (Prologue, lines 9-12) This passage does not...

...does relate to Shakespearian combat scenes is found in Jonson's prologue to Every Man in His Humour.3 with three rusty swords, And help of some few foot-and-half-foot words, Fight over York, and Lancaster's long jars: And in the tiring-house bring wounds, to scars. (Prologue, lines 9-i2) This passage does not...

...purchase your delight at such a rate, As, for it, he himself must justly hate: To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up in one...or, with three rusty swords, And help of some few foot and-half-foot words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars: And in the tiring-house bring...