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O F THE two periods of London stage history with which this book deals, the first, 1642-1660, has been generally regarded as a homogeneous blank. We have been taught to think that at the outbreak of the Civil Wars "long locks were converted to large ears; Masques and Playes to Conventicles and Psalm-singing." It is true that Malone and Collier, two great pioneers, uncovered certain lively and disturbing facts which tended to show that the theatrical life of London was not extinct throughout these eighteen years. Yet little was written since their time, aside from the paragraphs of C. H. Firth in Notes and Queries and those of J. Q. Adams in his Shakespearean Playhouses, until the important contributions made by Hyder E. Rollins in Studies in Philology (1921 and 1923). Mr. Rollins has performed a notable service in re-awakening interest in the period, and in bringing to light more of the rich material to be found in the Thomason Collection of Tracts in the British Museum. The present study combines his discoveries with a quantity of additional and corrective data obtained from a minute examination of all the newsbooks and many of the pamphlets included in Thomason's Collection. For

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Author

Hotson, Leslie

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1928

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674186521

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, World History, Humanities