V. The Experiment of Samuel Phelps 11

VI. The Rightful Supremacy of the Actor 12

VII. The Example of the French and German Stage 16

VIII. Shakespeare's Reliance on the "Imaginary Forces"
of the Audience 18

IX. The Patriotic Argument for the Production of
Shakespeare's Plays constantly and in their
variety on the English Stage 23


II

SHAKESPEARE AND THE ELIZABETHAN PLAYGOER

I. An Imaginary Discovery of Shakespeare's Journal 25

II. Shakespeare in the rôle of the Ghost on the First
Production of _Hamlet_ in 1602 27

III. Shakespeare's Popularity in the Elizabethan Theatre 29

IV. At Court in 1594 31

V. The Theatre an Innovation in Elizabethan England 36

VI. Elizabethan Methods of Production 38