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SHAKSPERE'S ENGLAND.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
Printed by SPOTTISWOODE & Co.,
New-street. Square.
BIBLIOTHECA
REGLA
MON CENSIS.
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
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.-