[protesting outside The Rose]
Licentiousness is made a show! Vanity and pride are likewise made a show! This is the very business of show!
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Lord Wessex My lady, the tide waits for no man, but I swear it would wait for you.
Richard Burbage The Master of the Revels despises us all for vagrants and peddlers of bombast. But my father, James Burbage, had the first license to make a company of players from Her Majesty, and he drew from poets the literature of the age. We must show them that we are men of parts. Will Shakespeare has a play. I have a theatre. The Curtain is yours.
Queen Elizabeth Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.
Viola De Lesseps Oh, but they can!
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