January, 1923.

CONTENTS

VOLUME I
PAGE
[PREFACE][vii]
[LIST OF AUTHORITIES][xv]
[BOOK I. THE COURT]
[I.]ELIZABETH AND JAMES[1]
[II.]THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD[27]
[III.]THE REVELS OFFICE[71]
[IV.]PAGEANTRY[106]
[V.]THE MASK[149]
[VI.]THE MASK (continued)[175]
[VII.]THE COURT PLAY[213]
[BOOK II. THE CONTROL OF THE STAGE]
[VIII.]HUMANISM AND PURITANISM[236]
[IX.]THE STRUGGLE OF COURT AND CITY[269]
[X.]THE ACTOR'S QUALITY[308]
[XI.]THE ACTOR'S ECONOMICS[348]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Wedding Mask of Sir Henry Unton. From picture in National Portrait Gallery Vol. i, frontispiece