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SHADOWS OF THE
STAGE
BY
WILLIAM WINTER
_"The best in this kind are but shadows"_
SHAKESPEARE
NEW YORK
MACMILLAN AND COMPANY
AND LONDON
1893
COPYRIGHT, 1892,
BY MACMILLAN & CO.
Set up and electrotyped May, 1892. Large Paper Edition printed May.
Ordinary Edition reprinted June, August, November, 1892; January, June,
October, November, 1893.
Norwood Press:
J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
TO
Henry Irving
IN MEMORY AND IN HONOUR
OF ALL THAT HE HAS DONE
TO DIGNIFY AND ADORN THE STAGE
AND TO ENNOBLE SOCIETY
THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED
_"Cui laurus aeternos honores
Delmatico peperit triumpho"_
PREFACE.
_The papers contained in this volume, chosen out of hundreds that the
author has written on dramatic subjects, are assembled with the hope
that they may be accepted, in their present form, as a part of the
permanent record of our theatrical times. For at least thirty years it
has been a considerable part of the constant occupation of the author to
observe and to record the life of the contemporary stage.
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