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On The Actor Lists, 1578—1642
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
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IT is singular that no attempt had been made to gather up these documents so fertile in suggestion and still more rich in definite evidence on many disputed critical and historical questions prior to the publication of my ‘Shakespeare Manual” in 1876. Collier had printed many lists in his «History of the Stage,” but had not compared them or arranged them for comparison. My own former attempt is incomplete, partly because at that date I had no access to public libraries, and had to work on imperfect materials; partly because additional lists have been still more recently discovered. I have not wittingly neglected any data for the present essay, which, whatever its faults may be, claims at any rate to be the only thing of its kind at present existing.
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page 45 note * See Halliwell's, “Illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare”, p. 119Google Scholar.
page 54 note * This refutes Gifford's absurd argument that Jonson could not have acted Jeronimo in the Spanish Tragedy, because Jeronimo in the earlier First Part of the play isa little man. Burbadge was no dwarf. This nonsense has been repeated by all editors of Jonson to this day.
page 67 note * Note that several companies were called by this name between 1609 and 1613.
page 78 note * To column iii add these: -E. Dutton's boy Dick(Richard Dutton); Griffin, Thomas Hunt, Richard Allen, Robert Leadbeater, and Pig; to column ix add Denyghten, Thomas Marbeck, Parsons, George, Dick Juby, Thomas Parsons, Jack Gregory, Denyghten's little boy, Gideon, Gibbs, Thomas Rowley, The redfaced fellow, Kester, James, Giles's boy, and little Will Barne; to column vii add Day, Flower and Wilson.