Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Vol. 11

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Excerpt from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Vol. 11: January to June, 1881 Driven out of the city, and put to their wits' end for an honest livelihood, the poor players, who now began to style themselves Her Majesty's servants, began to build theatres in all the suburbs, and to James Burbage is due the credit of having enabled them to do so. In fact, until he came forward to assist the poor dramatists by his skill as a carpenter, and, in some sense, manager, too, there was no combined effort at producing a genuine English drama. But from the moment that James Burbage, like a second Thespis, erected his wooden theatre in Shore ditch, the calling of the player began to assume a definite character, and acting grew into the dignity of an art and a profession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.