Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . multitude of the guardwith them, having every man in his hand a torch-stafffor the lights of the play (for no other lights wereoccupied) and would not suffer any to stand upon thestage, save a very few on the north side. From thequire door unto the stage was made, as twere, abridge, railed on both sides, for the Queens Graceto go to the stage, which was straitly kept. Theactors were chosen from all the colleges. The playlasted until midnight. At nine on Monday night she was p
Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . multitude of the guardwith them, having every man in his hand a torch-stafffor the lights of the play (for no other lights wereoccupied) and would not suffer any to stand upon thestage, save a very few on the north side. From thequire door unto the stage was made, as twere, abridge, railed on both sides, for the Queens Graceto go to the stage, which was straitly kept. Theactors were chosen from all the colleges. The playlasted until midnight. At nine on Monday night she was present, in the sameplace, at the play called Dido, written in hexameterverse and acted by the students of Kings. OnTuesday she saw Ezechias acted in English. OnWednesday great preparations and charges had beenmade for yet another play, * the tragedy of Sophocles,called Ajax Flagellifer, in Latin. But her majesty,not unnaturally, was over-watched with former plays,and, to the great sorrow of the players and thewhole University, the representation did not takeplace. Once again, in 1592, Elizabeth proposed to honour. KINGS ;;K ( HAIII, SPENSER AND THE DRAMA 175 the University with her presence. Since 1564, hermajesty had made acquaintance with a native dramawhich she reasonably preferred to all the premeditatedwelcomes of great clerks, and, through her Vice-Chambcrlain, she asked that the University shouldperform a comedy in English. The Vice-Chancellorand the Heads were seriously disturbed by the request,as barely three weeks notice of the visit was they represented that, desirous as they wereto do anything to give the Queen pleasure, yet theiractors had had * no practice in this English vein and were indeed very unwilling to act in English :furthermore, that they had no English comedies, andwould not be able to make or translate one in the timeallowed them. They submit that longer time is needed,and that Latin is to be preferred. The visit nevertook place.
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