EMEDD Citations for "proscenium"

Ian Lancashire
University of Toronto

for the Shakespeare Association of America
San Francisco 1999

  1. Proscenium (Latin entry by Thomas Cooper 1565, fol. iiiii3v)

    Proscenium, proscenij. Liu. The place before the scaffolde, out of whiche the players came.
    Ineunt proscenia ludi. Virgil.

  2. proscenium (Latin entry by Thomas Thomas 1587)

    Proscenium, nij, n. g. Liv. The place before the scaffold out of which the players came: also the stage or scaffold it selfe vpon which they played.

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