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detailed Instructions for the playing of lachimo's acenea.
Cooke'a version of these differs little from that used by
Marston in the Sadler's Wells production of 1847-1860, and
that of William Creswick, used in 1864 at Drury Lane:
Creswick 1 s book is a palimpsest whose first layer is a copy
marked by Keinble. The two scenes in which the "continuity
of lachimo" asserts itself are his interview with Imogen
(Arden 1.7 - Kemble's 11.1) and the bedchamber scene.
Creswick's annotations for the interview scene are much
more detailed than Cooke's, which are rudimentary. In the
bedchamber scene, Cooke lists the "points" of his soliloquy
more fully: in the follovdng account, his directions are
underlined in red ink.
The scene is, according to the printed stage-direction,
"a magnificent bedchamber, in one part of it a large Trunk":
Cooke adds that this is On the left a little more forward
than the bed. When Imogen has uttered her short prayer,
lachimo after a pause, raises the lid of the trunk, slowly,