II. The Advantages of a Constant Change of
Programme. The Opportunities offered Actors by
Shakespeare's Minor Characters. John of Gaunt 113

III. The Benefit of Performing the Play of _Hamlet_
without Abbreviation 116

IV. Mr Benson as a Trainer of Actors. The Succession
to Phelps 119


VI

THE MUNICIPAL THEATRE

I. The True Aim of the Municipal Theatre 122

II. Private Theatrical Enterprise and Literary Drama.
The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Actor-Manager
System. The Control of the Capitalist 123

III. Possibilities of the Artistic Improvement of
Theatrical Organisation in England 127

IV. Indications of a Demand for a Municipal Theatre 129

V. The Teaching of Foreign Experience. The
Example of Vienna 134

VI. The Conditions of Success in England 138