Excerpt from University Drama in the Tudor Age The present volume is the result of work which, in various ways, has extended over a number of years. In 1903-4, while I held the Chair of English Literature in the Queen's College (now the Queen's University), Belfast, I gave as Clark Lecturer in Trinity College, Cambridge, a series of lectures on the English Academic Drama. The delivery of this course within the walls of a great society, which had been one of the chief centres of academic acting, led me to follow the subject further, and to attempt a somewhat detailed study of University Drama in the Tudor age. I had already entered into provisional arrangements for the publication of such a study by the Oxford University Press, when I was invited by the Syndics of the Press of the sister University to contribute to Volume VI of the Cambridge History of English Literature a chapter on University Plays. Through the goodwill of the two authorities I have been enabled to trace the general outlines of the whole subject in the History of English Literature, and in the present work to deal on a comprehensive scale with its main features in the Tudor period. As there are many points of view from which University Drama may be studied, it may be well to indicate the lines that I have here followed. My first interest has been in the plays themselves. 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.