As It Occurs To Me whispering something and at one point exits pursued by a bear; a reference to a stage direction in "A Winter's Tale". Tiny Andrew Collings is also famous for exclaiming his own compliments and pretending they came from the audience, with the faux self-effacing phrase "Be quiet, you people in the crowd saying those things". Despite having died at the end of Series Two (reciting the poem "Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep"), Tiny Andrew returned on the Edinburgh special, claiming responsibility for most of the bad things that had occurred to Richard over the previous month (with the
The Prophetess (play) chorus, dumbshow, and Marlovain bombast suggest a work of the previous generation of dramas. It is possible that "The Prophetess" is a reworking of the lost play "Diocletian" from 1594. The play contains spectacular elements; critics have wondered exactly how the entrance of Delphia and Drusilla in II,iii, "in a Throne drawn by Dragons," could have been staged. The Prophetess (play) The Prophetess is a late Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. It was initially published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647. The play was licensed for performance by Sir