This is the secret of originality:  this it is that we desire in the theatre:—­not new material, for the old is still the best; but familiar material rendered new by an imagination that informs it with significance and makes it real.

INDEX

Adams, Maude, 60.

Addison, Joseph, 79;
  Cato, 79.

Ade, George, 56;
  Fables in Slang, 56;
  The College Widow, 41.

Admirable Crichton, The, 113.

Aeschylus, 5, 6, 135.

After Blenheim, 228.

Aiglon, L’, 67, 68.

Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire, 157.

Allen, Viola, 109.

Alleyn, Edward, 163.

All for Love, 17.

Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence, 92.

Antony, 140, 142.

Antony and Cleopatra, 16.

Aristophanes, 202.

Aristotle, 18.

Arnold, Matthew, 8, 19, 205, 221.

As You Like It, 38, 48, 51, 61, 62, 77, 78, 92, 100, 172, 186, 220.

Atalanta in Calydon, 20.

Augier, Emile, 9, 141.

Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, 103.

Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The, 178.

Bannister, John, 86.

Banville, Theodore de, 66.

Barrie, James Matthew, 204, 205, 206, 219;
  Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire, 157;
  Peter Pan, 215;
  The Admirable Crichton, 113;
  The Professor’s Love Story, 157.

Barry, Elizabeth, 70, 80.

Barrymore, Ethel, 157.

Bartholomew Fair, 202.

Beau Brummel, 70, 114, 210.

Beaumont, Francis, 28;
  The Maid’s Tragedy, 28.

Becket, 19, 72.

Bejart, Armande, 62, 63, 71.

Bejart, Magdeleine, 62, 71.

Belasco, David, 155;
  The Darling of the Gods, 42;
  The Girl of the Golden West, 90.

Bells, The, 125.

Bensley, Robert, 86.

Bernhardt, Sarah, 40, 64, 65, 66, 68, 105, 107.

Betterton, Thomas, 70.

Blot in the ’Scutcheon, A, 31, 56.

Boucicault, Dion, 70, 83;
  London Assurance, 83;
  Rip Van Winkle, 70.

Brown of Harvard, 155.

Browne, Sir Thomas, 177;
  Religio Medici, 31.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 19, 205.

Browning, Robert, 10, 19, 31, 32, 237;
  A Blot in the ’Scutcheon, 31, 56;
  A Woman’s Last Word, 32;
  In a Balcony, 10;
  Pippa Passes, 31, 194.

Brunetiere, Ferdinand, 35.

Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward, 79;
  Richelieu, 79.

Burbage, James, 77.

Burbage, Richard, 60, 61, 79, 93.

Burke, Charles, 103.

Burton, William E., 103.