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CORRECT COSTUMES
CHAPTER XXXIV.
HARLEQUIN AND CO.
CHAPTER XXXV.
"GOOSE"
CHAPTER XXXVI.
EPILOGUES


A BOOK OF THE PLAY.
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CHAPTER I.
PLAYGOERS.

The man who, having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of
Thespis and his company, followed the travelling theatre of that
primeval actor and manager, and attended a second and a third
histrionic exhibition, has good claim to be accounted the first
playgoer. For recurrence is involved in playgoing, until something of
a habit is constituted. And usually, we may note, the playgoer is
youthful. An old playgoer is almost a contradiction in terms. He is
merely a young playgoer who has grown old. He talks of the plays and
players of his youth, but he does not, in truth, visit the theatre
much in his age; and invariably he condemns the present, and applauds
the past. Things have much degenerated and decayed, he finds; himself
among them, but of that fact he is not fully conscious. There are no
such actors now as once there were, nor such actresses.


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