CHAPTER I.
PLAYGOERS.
The man who, having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of Thespis and his company, followed the travelling theatre of that primeval actor and manager, and attended a second and a third histrionic exhibition, has good claim to be accounted the first playgoer.

For recurrence is involved in playgoing, until something of a habit is constituted.

And usually, we may note, the playgoer is youthful.

An old playgoer is almost a contradiction in terms.

He is merely a young playgoer who has grown old.