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Shakespeare plays HUBERT on stage

A view of the stage, with a sign telling us that we are in a dungeon; lighted candles indicate that it is night, and there is a red-hot brazier at the back. Shakespeare is centre-stage, performing as Hubert dressed in medieval style. He looks distraught as a young actor playing Prince Arthur in chains reaches out pitifully towards him

ARTHUR If heaven be pleased that you must use me ill,
Why then you must. Will you put out mine eyes?
These eyes, that never did, nor never shall
So much as frown on you.

HUBERT I have sworn to do it,
And with hot irons must I burn them out.

ARTHUR Ah, none but in this iron age would do it.

King John, Act 4 Scene 1

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