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‘Lame and Blind’: A Stage Emblem in The Shoemaker’s Holiday
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Notes and queries, 2012-12, Vol.59 (4), p.557-559
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
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Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In Thomas Dekker's comedy The Shoemaker's Holiday, scene 18, a curious passage occurs that seems not to have been satisfactorily explained. Shoemaker Ralph has returned from the wars missing one leg; in his absence, his wife Jane has agreed to marry Hammon, a rich citizen, who has told her that Ralph has been killed. Ralph and his fellow shoemakers have heard where the wedding is to take place, and intervened just in time to save Jane from bigamy. At that moment, the Ralph-Jane plot intersects with that of the young lovers Lacy and Rose, whose intended marriage is blocked by their relatives, Lincoln and Oatley. Here, Franssen comments that the passage constitutes a stage emblem. Moreover, he stresses that the moral interpretation, in terms of the need for mutual forbearance and support, would have been left to the audience.