If we were interested to inquire what manner of man Mr. Manager Shakespeare was, we have only to {031}look about us among the managers of theaters in this latter half of our nineteenth century. Let us take Mr. Wallack or Mr. Daly, both of whom arrange plays for the stages of their own theaters, for example; or, better yet, take Mr. Lion Boucieault, who is an actor as well as a manager, and is, moreover, as successful in his day as was William Shakespeare in his. Mr. Boucieault has, so far, produced about one hundred and thirty-seven successful plays. Mr. William Shakespeare produced about a hundred less. All of Mr. Boucicault's plays show that gentleman's skillful hand in cutting, expanding, arranging, and setting for the stage; and in the representation of them, Mr. Boucieault has himself often participated. In like manner, Mr. Shakespeare, the manager, we are told by tradition, often assisted at the representation of the dramas produced on his boards, playing the Ghost in "Hamlet," * and the King in "Henry VI," which indicate very readily that his place in the "stock" was that of a "walking (or utility) gentleman." * And played it, it is thought by some, so wretchedly that he made "the gods" hoot. At any rate, in a pamphlet published by Lodge, in 1593, "Witt's Miserie and the World's Madness; Discovering the Devil's Incarnate of this age," a devil named "Hate-Vertue" is described as looking "as pale as the vizard of the ghost, which cried so miserably at the theatre like an oister-wife, 'Hamlet--Revenge.'" But perhaps Shakespeare did not play the ghost that night. Shakespeare also played "Old Knowell," Jonson's "Every Man in his Humor," "Adam," in "As You Like It," and, according to Jonson, apart in the latter's "Legacies," in 1603.