Shakspeare And His Contemporaries Together With the Plots of His Plays Theatr
Shakspeare And His Contemporaries Together With the Plots of His Plays Theatr
William Tegg
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Do you hear, let them, be well used ; for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. " Hamlet. IT is not our province here to dwell on the various exhibitions of Puritan spite which were designed but never succeeded, to arrest the progress and development of dramatic art, in the Elizabethan era, as well as in after-times, when players came under the penal enact- ments against " rogues and vagabonds. " Under the distinct and special sanction of the highest personages in the realm, ...youthful actors were selected from the choristers of Cathedrals, Churches, and Royal Chapels ; and the protec- tion extended to thy stage by the well-born and intellectual of all ages is surely enough to silence ACTORS OP THE ELIZABETHAN ERA. 133 the detractors of theatrical performances, con- sidering that opposition thereto sprang from bigots, generally of no education at all. In 1583, then, we find that in consequence of a bitter persecution of the stage by the Puritans, a certain number of actors were taken under the protection of sundry eminent personages, licensed, formed into properly organised companies, and sworn Her Majesty's Servants.
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