Shakespeare in the Theatre

SHAKESPEARE IN THE THEATRE
BY WILLIAM POEL FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE SOCIETY
LONDON AND TORONTO SIDGWICK AND JACKSON, LTD. 1913
All rights reserved.
These papers are reprinted from the National Review , the Westminster Review , the Era , and the New Age , by kind permission of the owners of the copyrights. The articles are collected in one volume, in the hope that they may be of use to those who are interested in the question of stage reform, more especially where it concerns the production of Shakespeare’s plays.
W. P.
May, 1913.
An acknowledgement of permission to reprint should also have been made to the Nation , in which several of the most important of these papers originally appeared.
W. P.
Shakespeare in the Theatre

THE STAGE OF SHAKESPEARE