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TY  - CHAP
T2  - Moncrief, Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
SP  - 45-53
ID  - bbbc1998
T1  - "The Mirror and the Monarchs: Suggestive Presences and Shakespeare's Cast Size"
AU  - Gamboa, Brett
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013
LA  - English
AB  - Speculates how Shakespeare used a guaranteed cast size of twelve in Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth through use of doubling, explained or unexplained absences, and, specifically, having Banquo stand in as the last king in Macbeth 4.1. Concludes that while modern casts would be larger to accommodate all of the roles, the early modern troupe would be able to handle a large number of roles with just twelve actors.
ER  -