[12] Should be 1579. Stephen Gosson's Schoole of Abuse was entered at Stationers' Hall, July 22, 1579. Dr. Doran corrects this in the second edition.
[13] Gosson was not made rector of St. Botolph till 1600.
[14] February 1647-48: that is, February 1648. This act succeeded the one mentioned in the next paragraph.
THE GLOBE THEATRE.
[CHAPTER III.]
THE "BOY ACTRESSES," AND THE "YOUNG LADIES."
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is the "sacred ground" of the English drama since the restoration of monarchy. At the Cockpit (Pit Street remains a memory of the place), otherwise called the Phœnix, in the "lane" above-named, the old English actors had uttered their last words before they were silenced. In a reconstruction of the edifice near, rather than on, the old site, the young English actors, under Rhodes, built their new stage, and wooed the willing town.