Literary and Graphical Illustrations of Shakspeare, and the British Drama Comprising an Historical View of the Origin and Improvement of the English Stage, and a Series of Critical and Descriptive Notices of Upwards and One Hundred of the Most Celebrated

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However deficient may be the materials for compiling a perfect His tory of the Drama in England, the illustrations of 1t, recovered by modern research, are far too numerous to be contained in the space here allotted to the subject: so that the reader will be presented with only some of the leading features of the ancient national Stage, and of the principal points of it's rise and improvement.

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