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Excerpt from A Study of the Prologue and Epilogue in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Dryden This little volume contains the substance (considerably enlarged and carefully revised) of five articles contributed to a monthly periodical. Though the outcome of vacation moments, it will, I hope, be found to represent a thorough investigation of the subject, so far as it extends. I shall be well pleased, if the facts collected and opinions arrived at during my excursion through a not uninteresting by-way of literature should hereafter prove useful to writers undertaking more ambitious researches into the wider domains of dramatic or social history, and still more if they should succeed in affording occasional entertainment to the general reader. 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.