Ian Lancashire
University of Toronto
for the Shakespeare Association of America
San Francisco 1999
Theatre: m. A Theater; a publike Playhouse; an halferound house wherein people sit to behold publike Playes, or Games.
THEATRE: Theater. A place made halfe round, where people sate to behold solemne games and plaies.
THEATRE: to a Theater belonging, Theatricall.
© Feb. 1999