Excerpt from Players of the Period: A Series of Anecdotal, Biographical, and Critical Monographs of the Leading English Actors of the Day That Mr. I rving's debut in the North should have not been an instantaneous triumph is not surprising when the taste of local audiences at that period is taken into account. Even as recently as 1880 an action was brought against a manager at Barnsley, to restrict him from producing a drama which excited the enthusiasm of the audience to such a pitch that it became a nuisance, the play in question being The Six Stages of Crime; or, Wine, lvomen, Gambling, Theft Illurder, and the Gallows, - ah additional attraction being the son of Charles Peace, the burglar-murderer, who played the concertina and answered any questions put to him by the audience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.