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                          Transcriber’s Notes

This e-text is based on the printed edition of ‘Shakespeare and
the Stage,’ by Maurice Jonas, from 1918. Inconsistent spelling and
hyphenation have been retained, but punctuation and typographical
errors have been corrected.

Illustrations, as well as facsimiles of book titles and exemplary
book pages, have been moved between two paragraphs for reasons of
clarity and comprehensibility. As a consequence, page references for
illustrations have been removed, because in most cases they are no
longer consistent with the original. Some title lines of the facsimile
pages seem to be cropped at the upper end. These errors originate from
the printed book; the rest of the titles cannot be retrieved.

The chapters in the original book have been numbered inconsistently;
the correct numbering scheme has been applied to this electronic
version.

Repeated, missing or inconsistent quotations have been adopted from the
original without modifications. No changes have been made to passages
copied from Shakespeare’s plays by the author; some suspected errors
have not been corrected.

Special characters have been used to highlight the following font
styles:

    italic:       _underscores_
    bold:         =equals signs=
    black letter: ~tilde characters~
    spaced:       +plus signs+

Caret symbols (^) precede superscript characters in the original; small
caps have been transformed into regular uppercase letters.

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                       SHAKESPEARE AND THE STAGE




[Illustration: The interior of the Swan Theatre. Drawn by De Witt in
1596.]




                              SHAKESPEARE
                            