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SHAKSPERE'S ENGLAND.
VOL. II.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
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CHAPTER X.
THE THEATRE.
The Ancient and Modern Stage. Strolling Players.- Tarleton,
the Comedian, a Guest of Elizabeth's. - Actors of the Day. —
High Standing of many.. Scenery and Dress. - Private Theatres.
-Actors' Profits. Prices of Plays. No Female Actors. -
Playhouses of London.-Troops of Actors.-The Globe and its Con-
temporaries.-Puritan Outcries.-The Actors individually known.
- Ben Jonson. The Seven chief Theatres. Playbills. — Days
of Performance. Actresses. The Gallant on the Stage.
The
Fop and the Critic. - Note Takers. — The Pit. — Furniture of the
Stage. Prologue. — The Play and the Jig. — How to go to the
Play. The Water Poet. -Coaches and Waggons. - Strolling
Players. Sketch of the Elizabethan Age. Shakspere's Contem-
poraries. — Men he must have seen. - His Elizabethan Manners.
- Dress, Scenes, and Characters. — Food. - Parallelisms. — Few
Facts of his Life. - A Dozen Dates. Traditions of him. His
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Learning. His Individuality. Allusions to Acting. The
Dramatist and Manager. — Amateur Acting. — Humiliation of the
Actor. Self-Accusation, Remorse. Mystery of Sonnets.
Urging Friend to Marriage. Love, Poems, and Repentance.-