HIS

LIFE, ART, AND CHARACTERS.

WITH

AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH
OF THE DRAMA IN ENGLAND.

FOURTH EDITION, REVISED.

BY

THE REV. H. N. HUDSON, LL.D.

VOLUME I.

BOSTON, U.S.A.:

GINN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.

1904.

8

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872,
BY HENRY N. HUDSON,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

TYPOGRAPHY BY J. S. CUSHING & Co., BOSTON, U.S.A.

PRESSWORK BY GINN & Co., BOSTON, U.S.A.

ΤΟ

MR. JOSEPH BURNETT,

OF SOUTHBOROUGH, MASS.

SIR:

The Memories of a Friendship running, I believe, without interrup

tion through a period of more than five-and-twenty years, prompt the inscribing of these volumes to you.

BOSTON, January 1, 1872.

H. N. HUDSON.