stage-travesties

Updated: May 21, 2025

But such a reason is not worthy of any man who dares to play Hamlet, much less of one who plays it as does. It is curious to observe how persistently the players, in making up the stage-travesties of Shakespeare's plays, have followed the uncertain lead of the quartos, where they and the folio differ.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862