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ISBN 13 : 9780428841614
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book The Theatre, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Theatre, Vol. 5 There is not, I will take upon myself to say, a needlessly hard word in the foregoing, nor one that the lamented Mr. Bedford himself would have felt severely, had he been alive to read it. In this paper I have done Mr. Yates an injustice by paying him a compliment. I have shown how much he interests me by being myself garrulous over his younger gossiping. It is considered a dangerous thing, and one rigorously denied me in daily practice, to promise more anon but I think it safe to say that I have not done with my friend's theatrical reminiscences, and that I shall return to them in my own way next month. Ancient prices or admission To theatres. - The cost of admission to the theatres in the days of Queen Elizabeth was very moderate. Let me never live to look so high as the twopenny room (boxes) again, says Ben Jonson in the Prologue to Every Man out of His Humour, acted for the first time at the Globe, on the Bankside, 1599. The price of the best room or boxes was one Shilling of the lower places twopence, and in some places one penny. The twopenny, mentioned by Jonson, was the gallery. Decker says, Pay your twopence to a player, and you may sit in the gallery. This place seems to have been very dis creditable, for it is commonly described as the resort of pickpockets and other bad characters in Every Man out of his Humour. The lords' room over the stage (this answered to the present stage-boxes), the price to them - one shilling. Thus Decker, in his Guls' Hornbook tells us, At a new play, you take up the twelvepenny room, next the stage. It will give you consequence, because the lords and you may seem to be hail-fellow, well met. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
