--- Steve Kilbane steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk wrote:
I just assumed that he didn't bother to write the directions in, because he was standing next to the other actors telling them in person.
Not an unreasonable assumption, but it's documented historical fact that 'cut down' company's derived from "The King's Men" would tour the country with plays whilst Bill was doing something else in the smoke.
Also there were loads of revivals of his plays by other companies and the like, which he simply can't have had time to supervise.
Some of the 'travelling' manuscripts are extant, and they don't give any more away than the good quartos and F1 (1623).
I think it's safe to say he was more Noel Coward than Bertolt Brecht.
wf
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