Viewing Event Record: Letoy in 'The Antipodes' complains about extemporizing actors

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The character Letoy in Richard Brome's 'The Antipodes' complains about actors who extemporize and calls the practice old-fashioned and more suited to the days of Richard Tarlton and William Kemp, 'Before the stage was purg'd from barbarisme.' Letoy defines extemporizing in the course of criticizing actors who do it: 'to adde unto / Your parts, your owne free fancy; and sometimes / To alter, or diminish what the writer / With care and skill compos'd: and when you are / To speake to your coactors in the Scene, / You hold interloquutions with the Audients.'

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From: 1640 (Source of claim: original)

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From: 1638 (Source of claim: original)

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