The Elizabethan Playhouse, and Other Studies (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The genial reception given to my earlier book on the Elizabethan Playbouse has encouraged me to issue this Second Series of studies. My chief aim has been, as before, to throw additional light on the obscurities of the Eliza bethan Stage,(and to emphasize the remarkable Vitality of its conventions by demonstrating how many of them contrived to Wind their tendrils round the trunk of early picture-stage dramaturgy. We sometimes forget that if there have been growth and decadence since Shakespeare's time, there has also been a certain measure of continuity)

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