Shakespeare and the Modern Stage / with Other Essays

by Sir Sidney Lee

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id="Page_xii"/> IV. At Court in 1594 31 V. The Theatre an Innovation in Elizabethan England 36 VI. Elizabethan Methods of Production 38 VII. The Contrast between the Elizabethan and the Modern Methods 43 VIII. The Fitness of the Audience an Essential Element in the Success of Shakespeare on the Stage 46

III

Shakespeare in Oral Tradition

I. The Reception of the News of Shakespeare's Death 49
II. The Evolution in England of Formal Biography 51
III. Oral Tradition concerning Shakespeare in Theatrical Circles 57
IV. The Testimonies of Seventeenth-century Actors 61
V. Sir William D'Avenant's Devotion to Shakespeare's Memory 69
VI. Early Oral Tradition at Stratford-on-Avon 73
VII. Shakespeare's Fame among Seventeenth-century Scholars and Statesmen 78
VIII.
 		 Nicholas Rowe's Place among Shakespeare's Biographers.
The Present State of Knowledge respecting Shakespeare's Life		  
79

IV

Pepys and Shakespeare

I. Pepys the Microcosm of the Average Playgoer 82
II. The London Theatres of Pepys's Diary 85
III. Pepys's Enthusiasm for the Later Elizabethan Drama