Excerpt from A Book of the Play, Vol. 1: Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and CharacterThis book is designed to serve and entertain those interested in the transactions of the Theatre - now, much more than for many years past, an obj ect of attention in England. For Fashion, it would seem, again patronises and upholds our Stage; rival players are once more supplying society with topics of conversation, provoking debate, division, and partisanship, and none the less, but rather the more, stirring enthusiasm, and bringing down lusty peals of applause.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.