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OF THE

ENGLISH STAGE,

FROM THE

RESTORATION IN 1660 TO 1830.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

Ει δε τι παραπται, η ουκ εκ ιβως ανειληπται, μηδείς ημας γράφετω μεμψεως,
εννοῶν ως πεπλανημένην ιστορίαν συνελεξαμεν..

-EVAGRIUS, p. 473.

IF ANY THING BE OVERLOOKED, OR NOT ACCURATELY INSERTED, LET
NO ONE FIND FAULT, BUT TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THAT THIS
HISTORY IS COMPILED FROM ALL QUARTERS.

VOL I.

BATH:

PRINTED BY H. E. CARRINGTON.

SOLD BY THOMAS RODD, GREAT NEWPORT STREET, LONDON.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

ABBREVIATIONS IN INDEX.

T. R. for Theatre Royal.

L. I. F. for Lincoln's Inn Fields.

D. G for Dorset Garden.

Hay. for Haymarket.

G. F. for Goodman's Fields.

D. L. C. for Drury Lane Company.
C. G. C. for Covent Garden Company.

A SHORT ACCOUNT

OF

THE STAGE PREVIOUSLY TO 1660.

THE first dramatic exhibitions were on religious subjects, they were acted by persons connected with the Church.

Geoffrey was invited to preside over the school at St. Alban's; but he not coming in time, another person was appointed to the situation, and Geoffrey in consequence read lectures at Dunstable. During the time he was there, he made a play on the story of St. Katharine: for the purpose of exhibiting it, he borrowed certain copes from the Abbey of St. Alban. On the night after the play, his house was burnt, with his books and the aforesaid copes. Geoffrey, not knowing how to make Heaven and St. Alban amends for this loss, thought the best way would be to turn monk, which he did at St. Alban's in 1119 he became Abbot. (Matthew Paris.) The play was acted several years before, and seems to have been the first ever acted in England.

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