EMEDD Citations for "parsonnage, personnage"

Ian Lancashire
University of Toronto

for the Shakespeare Association of America
San Francisco 1999

  1. player (French entry by John Palsgrave 1530)

    Player in a playe parsonnage.

  2. personnage (French entry by Randle Cotgrave 1611)

    Personnage: m. A personage, bodie, person; also, a part in a Play, or partplayer; an actor; also, a counterfeit, image, resemblance, of; also, a visard, a false or masking, face. Vn livre a personnages. A Dialogue. Faict a personnages. Wrought with Imagerie, or Antickes.

© Feb. 1999