HIS

LIFE, ART, AND CHARACTERS

WITH

AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH

OF THE DRAMA IN ENGLAND.

POURTH EDITION, REVISED.

BY

THE REV. H.'N. HUDSON, LL.D.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by

HENRY N. HUDSON

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

829.1

The Athenæum Press
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PRIETORS · BOSTON . U.S.A.

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TO

MR. JOSEPH BURNETT,

OF SOUTHBOROUGH, MA S.

SIR:

The Memories of a Friendship running, I believe, without interruption through a period of more than five-and-twenty years, prompt the inscribing of these volumes to you.

H. N. HUDSON.

BOSTON, January 1, 1872.