BOSTON
L. C. Page_AND COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)
1899
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Copyright, 1899
By L. C. Page_and Company
(INCORPORATED)
1899

Colonial Press:
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The First Performance of "Hamlet"[11]
II. At The Taverns[36]
III. Queen and Woman[69]
IV. The Unexpected[93]
V. The Player Proves Himself a Gentleman[104]
VI. And the Gentleman Proves Himself a Player[116]
VII. Mistress Anne Hazlehurst[129]
VIII. "A Devil of a Woman"[137]
IX. The First Day of the Flight[152]
X. The Locked Door[174]
XI. Wine and Song[184]
XII. The Constable of Clown[199]
XIII. The Prisonner in the Coach[220]
XIV. How the Page Walked in His Sleep[233]
XV. Treachery[251]
XVI. Foxby Hall[276]
XVII. A Woman's Victory[295]
XVIII. The Horsemen Arrive[309]
XIX. The Horsemen Depart[320]
XX. Roger Barnet Sits Down to Smoke Some Tobacco[332]
XXI. Roger Barnet Continues to Smoke Tobacco[342]
XXII. Speech without words[360]
XXIII. The London Road[368]
XXIV. How a New Incident Was Added to an Old Play[375]
XXV. Sir Harry and Lady Marryott[398]
Notes[409]