TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Except for those changes noted below, misspelling by the author, and inconsistent or archaic usage, has been retained. For example, coffee house, coffee-house; evildoers, evil-doers; midday, mid-day; re-married, remarried.

See the Note at the front of the book: This etext is derived from #216 of the 300 copies printed. The duplicates of the portraits have been removed.

p. vi 'Rarry' replaced by 'Barry'.
p. viii '9. Woodward as Bobadil' replaced by '9. Woodward in "Every Man in his Humour"'.
p. viii '16. Drury Lane Theatre' replaced by '16. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane'.
p. 77 'transcendant' replaced by 'transcendent'.
p. 81 'himself himself Lyddell' replaced by 'himself Lyddell'.
p. 107 'professionial' replaced by 'professional'.
p. 125, 201 'debût' replaced by 'début'.
p. 129, 163 'dénoûment' replaced by 'dénouement'.
p. 256 'intellegibly' replaced by 'intelligibly'.
p. 422 'epelogue' replaced by 'epilogue'.