CHAPTER XIII

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Italian Scenarios and English "Platts"--Pantaloon--Tarleton, the Clown--Extemporal Comedy--The Poet Milton--Ben Jonson--The Commonwealth--"A Reign of Dramatic Terror"--Robert Cox and his "Humours" and "Drolleries"--The Restoration

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Introduction of Pantomimes to the English Stage--Weaver's "History of the Mimes and Pantomimes"--Weaver's Pantomimes--The prejudice against Pantomimes--Booth's counsel

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