附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- A note on the text -- Intellectual acting -- Mr. Fechter's Othello -- Iago -- M. Fechter's Iago -- Mr. Fechter in a double character -- The devil on the stage -- The Princess Mary's amateur theatricals -- Lord Wicklow's amateur theatricals -- Mademoiselle Colas as Juliet -- Dr. Conolly on Hamlet's sanity -- Mr. Sothern as a caricaturist -- Shakespeare and the bible -- Mrs. Roseleaf's evening party -- Miss Helen Faucit's Imogen -- Miss Kate Terry -- Mr. Fechter in melodrama -- Shakespeare in Germany -- "Settling day" -- "Twelfth Night" at the olympic -- Lord Dundreary's brother -- Mr. Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle -- Theatrical taste and management-The Lyceum and olympic -- Mr. John Parry's wedding-breakfast -- Experience and inexperience on the stage -- The long strike -- Mephistopheles on the stage -- The clothes of the mind -- Mrs. Scott Siddons in Rosalind and Juliet -- Actresses and their critics -- Mr. Bandmann in Narcisse -- Mrs. Gamp at the olympic -- The tenderness for actors -- A holiday in the Tyrol:II.-The passion play [at Ammergau] -- Miss Bateman's Medea -- "Hamlet" at the crystal Palace -- Mr. Irving's Hamlet -- "The Merchant of Venice" -- Shakespeare's Henry VIII -- "Macbeth" at the Lyceum -- Mr. Tennyson's drama on the stage -- Miss Genevieve Ward -- Tennyson as Dramatist -- Mephistopheles at the Lyceum -- Professor Jowett on the drama -- "A doll's house" -- The "Pale Cast of Thought" -- Appendix I: Hutton's Spectator reviews of editions of plays, including poetic dramas -- Appendix II: Identified Spectator reviewers of theatre other than Hutton -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.