"Seven hundred and sixty copies printed; type distributed. no. 224"

Four of the essays now printed for the first time, the others reprinted from various periodicals.

Light and darkness in the ELizabethan theatre.

Windows on the pre-restoration stage.

The origin of the theatre programme.

Early systems of admission.

The origin of the English picture-stage.

The persistence of Elizabethan conventionalisms.

Irish players at Oxford in 1677.

Louis xiv's scene painters.

A player-friend of Hogarth.

Garrick's first appearance as Hamlet.

Appendices: I. Amended chronological list of Elizabethan, and quazi-Elizabethan play houses (1576-1663) II. The oldest known English play bills.

Bibliography (p. 245-150)

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Stage history > To 1625.

Theater > Great Britain > History.

Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery.

Theaters > Great Britain.