Other People’s Windows (Paperback)

PREFACE. N his Prologue to the Malcontent, John Marston, in a playfil way, satirizes Shakspere by making a burlesque of the Epilogue to As You Like It. I take it that in Elizabeths time the gallants were less gallant than at present, and usurped the easy seats, which they never do now, while the ladies had to stand for Marston makes his Prologue say, Gentlemen, I could wish, for the womens sakes, that you had all soft cushions and he hopes that the gentlewomen – the good word was n (more…)