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Show The Elizabethan Stage. The great plays of Marlowe, Shakespeare Shakes-peare and Johnson wero-performed by actors ac-tors In Elizabethan drees. In front of a curtain, usually In daylight, on a llttlo stago partly occupied by the gallants of the period with tholr pages and tobacco pipes. There was no fashionable actress, no orchestra, no limelight, yet the drama was more popular than churchgolng and held Its own even with such gentlo sport as bull baltlns and "wiping of the blind bcare." Tho little that we know of tho actors shows them, with the oxcoptlon of Burbago and Nathaniel Field, to have been very ordinary work-a-day peoplo, with empty pockets and domestic affections affec-tions and other modern characteristics, ' Yet tho protests of tho Puritans, the sanc- tlmonlous and avaricious ' Wrfr censor and tho continual kkcuZZ ? tWBgir theaters In oplto of tho solemn ?J 0 the City Fiuhws are evIdS JJcMfe. tho marvelous popularity ' to mu$' oi'l 'A art attained In that "Dact0Uj ..11 Wk & playhouses most remarkable i f, I"6 o M- t spacc.-From tho Iondori T'ot ,aclt SI ffr |