Excerpt from The Romance of the English Stage There are several collections in which the lives of the English actors and actresses have been set out. Of these the most important are Galt's Lives of the Players, in which the substance, without the form, of the various the atrical autobiographies has been given, mingled, however, with much that is apocryphal and the more recent His tory of the English Stage, by Dr. Doran, which is brought down almost to our own day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.