Pamphlet containing passages from various plays, as well as puppets with heads based on young William Henry West Betty’s features, with several costume changes.
A celebration of Christmas as depicted in the theater with designs by Inigo Jones, Rex Whistler and Joan Hassall, and others; contains color plates and many black and white illustrations. Includes the text of Ben Jonson's Christmas: His Masque.
Nahum Tate's alteration to Shakespeare's King Lear, popular on stage from the late 17th through the early 19th centuries, leaves out the Fool as a character and provides a happy ending.