class="c8">Shakespeare's Fame among Seventeenth-century Scholars and Statesmen

78 VIII.
  Nicholas Rowe's Place among Shakespeare's Biographers.
The Present State of Knowledge respecting Shakespeare's Life  
79

IV

Pepys and Shakespeare

I.	Pepys the Microcosm of the Average Playgoer	82
II.	The London Theatres of Pepys's Diary	85
III.	Pepys's Enthusiasm for the Later Elizabethan Drama	90
IV.	Pepys's Criticism of Shakespeare. His Admiration of Betterton in Shakespearean rôles	93
V.	The Garbled Versions of Shakespeare on the Stage of the Restoration	102
VI.	The Saving Grace of the Restoration Theatre. Betterton's Masterly Interpretation of Shakespeare	109

V

Mr Benson and Shakespearean Drama

I.	A Return to the Ancient Ways	111
II.	The Advantages of a Constant Change of Programme. The Opportunities offered Actors by Shakespeare's Minor Characters. John of Gaunt	113
III.	The Benefit of Performing the Play of Hamlet without Abbreviation	116
IV.	Mr Benson as a Trainer of Actors. The Succession to Phelps	119

VI

The Municipal Theatre

I.	The True Aim of the Municipal Theatre	122
II.	Private Theatrical Enterprise and Literary Drama. The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Actor-Manager System. The Control of the Capitalist	123
III.	Possibilities of the Artistic Improvement of Theatrical Organisation in England	127
IV.	Indications of a Demand for a Municipal Theatre	129