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SHAKESPEARE

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THE STAGE

THIRD SERIES

BY

WILLIAM WINTER

"Their memory shall as a pattern or a measure live."

-SHAKESPEARE

NEW YORK

MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY

HARVARD UNA CRSITY LIBRARY JUN 28 1955

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY
WILLIAM WINTER

All Rights Reserved

Published, November, 1916

To

MARY ANDERSON

(Mrs. Antonio de Navarro)

Whose Beautiful Impersonations of
Juliet, Rosalind, Hermione, and Perdita,
Winning the Public Heart

And Ennobling the Public Mind,
Have Made Her Name Imperishable
In the Record of Fine Histrionic Achievement
Expositive of Shakespeare's Genius,
And Whose Brilliant Theatrical Career
Was Delightful to the Community
And Honorable to Herself,

I DEDICATE

These Studies of the Poet She Loves
And the Art She Adorns

Noble and gentle, she will not disdain

The honest praise that Truth and Memory give, Nor deem my ardent longing wholly vain

That with her gracious name my book should live.

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STATE OF the Text

CONSTITUENTS, AND CLASSIFICATION, OF THE

DRAMA

EARLIEST RECORDED PERFORMANCES

SUBSEQUENT REPRESENTATIONS.-ALTERATIONS

OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAY.

THEOPHILUS CIBBER'S REVIVAL

CHARACTER OF POSTHUMUS LEONATUS

LATER PRESENTMENTS: VARIOUS PERFORMERS

OF POSTHUMUS.-BRITISH STAGE: RYAN.-

GARRICK.-POWELL.-REDDISH.-BANNIster.

-HENDERSON

JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE.

OTHER PLAYERS OF POSTHUMUS.-BRITISH

STAGE: HOLMAN.-EDMUND KEAN. THE

ELDER BOOTH.-CHARLES KEMBLE.-YOUNG

WILLIAM CHARLES MACREADY

SAMUEL PHELPS AND G. V. BROOKE

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