After a good performance during Elizabethan England, actors were thrown money on the stage and they would kneel down to collect the money thus' breaking 'the line of the leg.

在伊丽莎白时代的英格兰，在一个好的表演之后，会有钱币掷上舞台，而演出者会跪下来收集这些钱，这样就用“断”一条腿来破除不吉。

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Sir Peter became artistic director in 1960, and he immediately had a forestage installed, like an Elizabethan apron stage.

彼得爵士在1960年成为艺术导演后立即安装了舞台前部，就像伊丽莎白一世时代突出于幕前的舞台。

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What's more, it's acted on an Elizabethan-style stage by a cast of eight performers and it moves fast.

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Four months later I saw the show a second time when it moved to Broadway after which I saw Chicago Shakespeare's more intimate version, directed by Gary Griffin on the company's Elizabethan-style thrust stage.

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The outside dimensions of the theatre were extrapolated from one of the panoramas, the height and stage layout from the contract for the later Fortune theatre, decoration from the latest research on Elizabethan pigments and taste.

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