The new spirit in drama & art . spasmodically at Breslau and Prague ; and atParis, in a production of Measure for Measure at the Theatrede IGEuvre in 1898. The English Elizabethan Stage Society,under the direction of Mr William Poel, initiated its Shake-spearean stage with a performance of Measure for Measure in1893, and endured until 1905. In America, the Departmentof English of Harvard University built an Elizabethan stagefor a revival of Ben Jonsons TLpiccene in 1895, and rdBhilt itin accordance with the latest research for Mr Forbes Robertsonto play Hamlet upon in 1904. It must, of course,

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The new spirit in drama & art . spasmodically at Breslau and Prague ; and atParis, in a production of Measure for Measure at the Theatrede IGEuvre in 1898. The English Elizabethan Stage Society,under the direction of Mr William Poel, initiated its Shake-spearean stage with a performance of Measure for Measure in1893, and endured until 1905. In America, the Departmentof English of Harvard University built an Elizabethan stagefor a revival of Ben Jonsons TLpiccene in 1895, and rdBhilt itin accordance with the latest research for Mr Forbes Robertsonto play Hamlet upon in 1904. It must, of course, be borne inmind that these ventures, with the possible exception of theHarvard one, were conceived in the interests of histrionicreform rather than in those of pure archaeology. The objectsare related, but ought not to be confused. The representationof Shakespeares plays in the modern theatre has no doubtcome to disaster, partly owing to the substitution after theRestoration of a picture-stage for a platform-stage, and partly.

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