The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 1

PREFACE

In 1903 I explained the origin of _The Mediaeval Stage_ out of preliminary investigations for a little book on Shakespeare. That little

book is still unwritten, and perhaps it was only a mirage, since working

days have their term, and all that I can now offer, after an interval of twenty years, is another instalment of _prolegomena_. It has been in hand, mor...