Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Echoes of the Playhouse: Reminiscences of Some Past Glories of the English Stage
The performers generally appeared on movable scaf folds or stages placed in the open streets, or in the courtyard of an inn. Some of these scaffolds consisted of two compartments, one above the other, in the lower of which the dramatz's persona, were obliged to dress, and while the arrangement must have had its incon venienees, more particularly for the audience, the actors possibly. Fared as comfortably as they would have done in the ayerage dressing-room of the American theatre. Our auditoriums are fitted up like palaces, but alas! How much more like hovels oftentimes seem the quar ters on the other side of the proscenium.
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