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Oversized scissors on theatre seating steps

Oversized scissors on theatre seating steps
Oversized scissors on theatre seating stepsSource: He Fa on Shakespeare

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In a fictional theatre rendered with brown-black woodcut-like lines, two ruff-collared figures occupy opposite stepped seats around an oversized pair of scissors. Tiny audience faces fill wooden galleries above intersecting roof and stair lines, with a fallen hat at lower right amid dense cross-hatching.

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  • Story setting: 1601, London, performance day at the Globe.

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  • He Fa on Shakespeare｜Please Swallow the EndingEnglish

    Caption on that page: The cheapest standing tickets soon acquired private-box accommodation. Early seventeenth-century woodcut vocabulary

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    The Globe stage rises in accordion folds while He Fa and Shakespeare hold opposite ends of a spoken line turned into giant iron scissors.

  • 何发论莎士比亚｜请把散场咽回去中文

    Caption on that page: 最便宜的站票很快获得了包厢待遇。 17世纪初木刻语汇

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    环球剧场木地板像手风琴竖起，何发与莎士比亚各抓住一头变成铁剪刀的台词，努力阻止剧场折叠。

  • He Fa on XXX | Twelve fantastical journeys through timeEnglish
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    The Globe stage rises in accordion folds while He Fa and Shakespeare hold opposite ends of a spoken line turned into giant iron scissors.

  • 何发论 XXX｜十二场奇幻穿越戏中文
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    环球剧场木地板像手风琴竖起，何发与莎士比亚各抓住一头变成铁剪刀的台词，努力阻止剧场折叠。