by footnotes to the more significant documents bearing on the point.
In a task involving so many details I cannot hope to have escaped errors—errors due not only to oversight, but also to the limitations of my knowledge or to mistaken interpretation. For such I can offer no excuse, though I may request from my readers the same degree of tolerance which I have tried to show other laborers in the field. In reproducing old documents I have as a rule modernized the spelling and the punctuation, for in a work of this character there seems to be no advantage in preserving the accidents and perversities of early scribes and printers. I have also consistently altered the dates when the Old Style conflicted with our present usage.
I desire especially to record my indebtedness to the researches of Professor C.W. Wallace, the extent of whose services to the study of the Tudor-Stuart drama has not yet been generally realized, and has sometimes been grudgingly acknowledged; and to the labors of Mr. E.K. Chambers and Mr. W.W. Greg, who, in the Collections of The Malone Society, and elsewhere, have rendered accessible a wealth of important material dealing with the early history of the stage.
Finally, I desire to express my gratitude to Mr. Hamilton Bell and the editor of The Architectural Record for permission to reproduce the illustration and description of Inigo Jones's plan of the Cockpit; to the Governors of Dulwich College for permission to reproduce three portraits from the Dulwich Picture Gallery, one of which, that of Joan Alleyn, has not previously been reproduced; to Mr. C.W. Redwood, formerly technical artist at Cornell University, for expert assistance in making the large map of London showing the sites of the playhouses, and for other help generously rendered; and to my colleagues, Professor Lane Cooper and Professor Clark S. Northup, for their kindness in reading the proofs.
Joseph Quincy Adams
Ithaca, New York
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Map of London Showing the Playhouses | Frontispiece |
| An Inn-Yard | 4 |
| Map of London Showing the Inn-Playhouses | 9 |
| The Site of the First Playhouses | 27 |
| The Site of the First Playhouses | 31 |
| A Plan of Burbage's Holywell Property | 33 |
| The Site of the Curtain Playhouse | 79 |
| Blackfriars Monastery | 93 |
| The Site of the Two Blackfriars Playhouses | 94 |
| A Plan of Farrant's Playhouse | 97 |
| The Bankside | 120 |
| The Bankside | 121 |
| The Bear- and Bull-Baiting Rings | 123 |
| The Bear Garden | 127 |
| The Bear Garden and the Rose | 147 |
| The Bear Garden and the Rose | 149 |
| Joan Woodward Alleyn | 152 |
| The Manor of Paris Garden and the Swan Playhouse | 163 |
| The Swan Playhouse | 165 |
| The Interior of the Swan Playhouse | 169 |
| Plan Illustrating the Second Blackfriars Playhouse | 187 |
| Remains of Blackfriars | 196 |
| Richard Burbage | 234 |
| William Shakespeare | 238 |
| A Plan of the Globe Property | 242 |
| The Bear Garden, the Rose, and the First Globe | 245 |
| The Bear Garden, the Rose, and the First Globe | 246 |
| The First Globe | 248 |
| The First Globe | 253 |
| Merian's View of London | 256 |
| The Second Globe | 260 |
| The Traditional Site of the Globe | 262 |
| The Site of the Fortune Playhouse | 270 |
| The Fortune Playhouse? | 278 |
| Edward Alleyn | 282 |
