... Shakspere and Jonson were writing for the stage. And, indeed, Shakspere, as we know, was acting in this very play at the Globe Theatre in 1599, Queen Elizabeth herself being present at one performance. Assuredly the changes of popular taste are interesting ...

... believe that it reaches very gigantic proportions. I realise that there is a great cosmopolitan Dublin that crowds the splendid theatres to see the ordinary comic operas that are so popular in London that the book shops are filled with the novels of the hour ...

... birthday of Bjornstjerne Bjornson, which will be celebrated with a great many special performances of his plays at the principal theatres of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany. Tet me recommend a beautiful edition of The A utocrat of the Breakfast Table and ...

... National Theatre, when his powerful drama, Paul Lange an.l Tora Parsberg, was performed. The poet and his wife were present and were received with great ovations. After the performance a students' torohlight procession arrived in front of the theatre, from ...

... case the biography should be of the briefest. 1\ /j* r. Grant Richards has undertaken to publish a history of the Haymarket Theatre from the pen of Mr. Cyril Maude. The Haymarket has a fascinating history, and it is peculiarly fitting that its leading actor ...

... Frank Dodd of the publishing house of Dodd, Mead and Co., New York Samuel Johnson's Prologue spoken at the opening of the theatre in Drury Lane in 1747 with Garrick's Epilogue. A facsimile of the hitherto undiscovered first edition with Preface by Austin ...

... are his own, although I confess to having hoped that he would give his play a happy ending and thereby endear it more to a theatre audience. I am glad to see that the acting rights are in the hands of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, for those who have seen her in ...

... Stratford has submitted to so much vulgarisation of late years with absolute passiveness. It is so proud of its Memorial Theatre and the adjoining buildings in spite of the fact that these are an absolute atrocity, out of all harmony with the surroundings ...

... that this cannot be expected of Stratford-on-Avon. The inhabitants have already vulgarised the place enormously the huge theatre and its surroundings are a genuine discredit to Stratford, and I have no reason to suppose but that something equally magnificent ...

... The notion that the performance of Mr. Benson's company of a number of Shakspere's plays in that grotesquely incompatible theatre at Stratford-on- Avon should be a matter for congratulation is enough to take one's breath away. The cult of young Oxford ...

... respect of its vastness, but I have lost myself. I have as yet made few visits. Your friends I have not yet seen, and the theatres are my chief resource. I am freezing and suffer fearfully. I am too ill to be able to do anything, but my next work shall ...

... of the effects of the Lyceum Theatre should give an additional interest to Mr. Brereton's took, The Lyceum and Henry Irving, published by Lawrence and Bullen. This is the story, well told and well illustrated, of the theatre that has been associated for ...