:51:09
Why have we stopped?
:51:11
Come with us, Mr Kynaston.
:51:15
What are you up to?
:51:17
It's more a question
of what you're up to.
:51:21
Have you ever had occasion
to perform out-of-doors?
:51:25
Er, not that I can recall.
:51:28
Then I beg you, sir,
:51:29
flatter us,
:51:31
who do not deserve your good graces.
:51:40
Hmm.
:51:42
You mocked us, sir!
:51:44
You, an actor, mocked your betters.
:51:46
You shall know
the other end of it now, bum-boy!
:51:50
Here is the whore of the Moor of Venice.
:51:53
- Where's your frock, my girl?
You mistake me, gentlemen!
:51:56
- No mistake!
- 'Tis he. The slut himself.
:51:58
- Just as we have been foretold!
Hit him again!
:52:01
I have in hand an edict.
:52:03
I wish it passed, put down in law,
:52:06
and circulated throughout
the affected areas posthaste.
:52:09
A Royal licensing law,
:52:12
which states, in binding language,
as does follow:
:52:16
Whereas the women's parts in plays
:52:19
have hitherto been acted by men
in the habits of women,
:52:23
at which some have taken offence,
:52:27
we do permit and give leave,
for the time to come,
:52:32
that all women's parts
be acted by women.
:52:38
No He shall e'er again...
:52:41
...upon an English stage
:52:44
play she