Excerpt from Shakespeare From Betterton to Irving, Vol. 2 The two royal theatres are all that need detain us here; the Haymarket, to be sure, in 1777 passed to the elder Col man, who retired from Covent Garden, and enlarged the Haymarket for the better accommodation of actors and Spectators. But so far as notable productions of Shakes speare are concerned, the history still limits itself to Drury Lane and Covent Garden. 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.