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Encyclopediadumb showdumb show, a theatrical pantomime included as part of a drama, especially in Elizabethan works, from the middle of the 16th cent. well into the 17th cent. Whether presented as a spectacle, with music, or as a masque with the players as allegorical characters, the dumb show appeared as prologue, between the acts, or during the play itself. It usually either presaged the events of the play or interpreted them as a chorus does. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. More on dumb show from Infoplease:
- William Shakespeare: Henry VIII, Dramatis Personae -
- William Shakespeare: Pericles, Act III - Now sleep y-slaked hath the rout; No din but snores the house about, Made louder by the o'er-fed breast Of this most pompous marriage-feast. The cat,
- William Shakespeare: Pericles, Act II - Here have you seen a mighty king His child, I wis, to incest bring; A better prince and benign lord, That will prove awful both in deed and word. Be q
- Pantomime - Pantomime (3 syl.), according to etymology, should be all dumb show, but in modern practice it is ...
- William Shakespeare: Pericles, Act IV, Scene IV - Thus time we waste, and longest leagues make short; Sail seas in cockles, have an wish but for't; Making, to take your imagination, From bourn to bour
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