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Most of the conclusions in the following monograph were reached in the fall of 1910 and presented a little later before the seminar in Elizabethan Literature conducted by Professor F. I. Carpenter. A short time afterwards Neuendorff’s Die englische Volksbühne im Zeitalter Shakespeares became accessible, thus necessitating the rewriting of the first part of my study. The latter part remains substantially as it was originally written. Since the dissertation was accepted by the Department of English at the University of Chicago, Professor Feuillerat has printed for the German Shakespeare Society the documents proving the existence of an earlier Blackfriars, Professor Wallace has brought out his Evolution of the English Drama, and Mr. W. J. Lawrence has published his two volumes of essays, The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies. Very recently Mrs. C. C. Stopes’s James Burbage has appeared. I regret that I have not been able to make use of the recent works of these scholars; yet I do not see that the theory as presented in the following pages is seriously affected by newly discovered facts.

To the earlier published works of Professor Feuillerat and Mr. W. J. Lawrence, my indebtedness is large, as the foot-notes below reveal. I wish, too, to acknowledge my indebtedness to my friend G. F. Reynolds, not only for the help which his articles have afforded me, but also for suggestions privately made. It is a pleasure to express here my thanks to Professors C. A. Baskervill, A. H. Tolman, and R. M. Lovett, who kindly read my dissertation when it was in manuscript. To Professor Carpenter I am obliged for suggesting to me the present study and advising that I pursue it at a time when I would have turned to something else. And finally, to Professor J. M. Manly I am especially indebted for his criticism and encouragement, and for the privilege of examining, before they were made accessible in Murray’s English Dramatic Companies, a large body of the extant records of theatrical performances in the provinces.

Durham, N.C.

November 29, 1913.