LIFE, ART, AND CHARACTERS

AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH
OF THE DRAMA IN ENGLAND.

HIS

FOURTH EDITION, REVISED.

BOSTON
ATLANTA

WITH

THE REV. H. N. HUDSON, LL.D.

fier

DALLAS

BY

GINN AND COMPANY

NEW YORK

VOLUME I.

CHICAGO

LONDON

SAN FRANCISCO

PR

894

77?

17-

V. I

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by HENRY N. HUDSON

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

829.1

The Athenæum Press

GINN AND COMPANY. PRO-
PRIETORS BOSTON U.S.A.

580

TO

MR. JOSEPH BURNETT,

OF SOUTHBOROUGH, MASS.

SIR:

The Memories of a Friendship running, I believe, without interruption through a period of more than five-and-twenty years, prompt the inscribing of these volumes to you.

H. N. HUDSON.

BOSTON, January 1, 1872