A Common Sense View of Shakespeare (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Common Sense View of Shakespeare Perhaps it will be interesting to the readers for the writer to make a few preliminary remarks of his own personal observations of this great genius in olden times. In the years of the forties - now over fifty years ago - west of the Alleghany Mountains the public was more stagestruck on Shakespeare than at the present day. One could hear his name in the saloons. In the public streets young men in mock style would cry out, "Ah-h´m, Shakespeare!" and the cabin-boys on steamboats played "Richard III,´ fencing with broom-handles, showing the public interest in the Shakespearean performances. The compartment immediately in front of the stage, now-a-days the most fashionable, was in those days called the "pit," not by any means for the better class but for cheap admission, and the fourth tier was appropriated for the "niggers." There was also an arrangement called the "cock loft," which was included in the admission fee, where one could get a drink of whisky and have a social chat with a certain class of the fair sex. To the recollection of the writer a certain class of the women were admitted free to the "cock loft" to draw custom for the bar and theater. By the way, "the people are not so good as they used to be." 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.
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