Excerpt from The Comedy of Mucedorus: Revised and Edited, With Introduction and Notes From this altered form of the epilogue, we learn the occasion on which the new scenes were added. 'a comedy', says the late R. Simpson 'by some poet unaccustomed to write for the com pany, had been acted at the Globe, and afterwards at court before the king himself. It was full of dark sentences for which the actors were delated to the magistrate, to their great danger. And on occasion of their being admitted to act again at court, they presented the old, iffensive Mucedorus as their peace-offering, with an elaborate excuse for their error.' (epilogue 11. 15 R. Simpson then goes on to enumerate several plays of a scandalous character which were performed at the Globe between the publication of Mucedorus in 1606 and the issue of the edition of 1610; it is however difficult to say which of them had given the offence alluded to in the epilogue. 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 techlogy 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.