A Glance back--From 1820 to 1830--Kean and Macready--The Strolling Player--The Critics--Sheridan Knowles and _Virginius_--Douglas Jerrold--His Comedies--_The Rent Day_--_The Prisoner of War_--_Black-Eyed Susan_--Collapse of the Privileged Theatres--Men of Letters come to the Rescue of the Drama--Bulwer Lytton--_The Lady of Lyons_--_Richelieu_-- _Money_ 39 Macready's Withdrawal from the Stage--The Enemies of the Drama in 1850: Puritanism; the Opera; the Pantomime; the "Hippodrama"--French Plays and French Players in England-- Actors of the Period--The Censorship--The Critics--The Historical Plays of Tom Taylor and the Irish Plays of Dion Boucicault 73…
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