Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Shakespeare on the State
This volmne continues a theatrical chronicle on which I have worked, almost incessantly, for many years, and which I hope to live long enough to finish. The labor has been hard; the product of it, I venture to believe, will prove useful. Persons who consider the Theatre to be merely a shop and who view Theatrical Management as merely the Show Busi ness, cannot be, and are not, expected to feel, or pretend to feel, even the slightest interest in a work which relates to the history, and aims to illustrate the development, of the beautiful Art of Acting. Per m, on the other hand, who believe, as I do, that the Theatre exercises a vast in?uence on Society, and thould be cherished and stimulated as a potent agent of civih'zation, will, I am confident, favor the pursu ance of an attempt, - already approved by their cordial welcome of the First Series of these Studies, to present, in a suitably compendious form, an adhentic account of the manner in which, from the beginning, the Plays of Shakespeare have been acted. My purpose and plan are fully stated in the Preface tothefirstvolumeofmy searespeareonteestage.
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