Almost the only “rule” in London theater that was still
faithfully followed was the one we now call, for convenience,
the law of reentry, which stated that a character couldn’t exit
from one scene and reappear immediately in the next. He had
rather to go away for a while. Thus, in Richard II, John of Gaunt
makes an abrupt and awkward departure purely to be able to
take part in a vital scene that follows. Why this rule out of all
the many was faithfully observed has never, as far as I can make
out, been satisfactorily explained.
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