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In the reign of Charles I. there was nothing more than a curtain of very coarse stuff, upon the drawing up of which, the stage appeared either with bare walls on the sides, coarsly matted, or covered with tapestry; so that for the place originally represented, and all the successive changes, in which the poets of those times freely indulged themselves, there was nothing to help the spectator's understanding, or to assist the actor's performance, but bare imagination.
Some words now used with the accusative case were combined with the dative case in Gerstäcker's time; period usage has been retained where contemporary reference books show this to have been the case. The following additional changes were made; the original appears in the first line, the altered version in the second. Das Inhaltsverzeichnis wurde an den Anfang gesetzt.