Entertainment / Literature / Heavens: Sometimes used synonymously with 'the aloft' and 'the above,' the term refers more specifically to the canopy over the stage in open-air theaters to protect actors and their costumes from the elements. Greenblatt notes that the 'heavens' in the Globe theater would be 'brightly decorated with sun, moon, and stars, and perhaps the signs of the Zodiac' (1140).
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Entertainment / Literature / Neologism: A made-up word that is not a part of normal, everyday vocabulary. Often Shakespeare invented new words in his place for artistic reasons. For instance, 'I hold her as a thing enskied.' The word enskie MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Hell Mouth: Students should distinguish between the medieval and Renaissance meanings of hell mouth. (1) In medieval art, the hell mouth was a stylized painting in which the entry to hell resembles a gaping demon MORE
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