... ELIZABETHAN DRAMATISTS, No. VII.-WEBSTER.* THE traditions of the frame sanglant which had been inaugurated by Marlowe and Kyd, and had been carried on by Marston, were maintained with the force and concentration of superior genius by Webster. Webster did not write much, but what he wrote is of solid and enduring value. His characters are as definite and real as those of Shakspeare, though it ...

... FOR L O VE. IN his new play, entitled For Love, produced at the Holborn Theatre on Saturday night, Mr. Robertson would seem to have set himself the task of expanding a plot suitable to a comedietta into the subject of a long melodrama in three acts. The story of For Love is of the slightest and simplest kind. One John Wyse, a young physician, is deeply attached, and has been almost ...