Glendower Lee: Lady Percy Mrs. Palmer: Hos tess Mrs. Bradshaw. = 10. Stratagem. Archer Obrien. = 12. Barbarossa-as before. 15. Tempest. Stephano = King: Trinculo = Yates Caliban = Love. 17. Busy Body. Marplot-Obrien. Ha 19. Miser. Lovegold Yates: Frederick vard: Ramilie King: Lappet = Mrs. Clive: Mariana Miss Bride. = 21. For the author of the Farce. Philaster, and Deuce is in him. 22. Venice Preserved. Jaffier Powell, 1st time: Pierre Holland: Priuli Havard: Belvidera = Mrs. Yates. = = = = 23. Midsummer Night's Dream. Theseus = Bransby Egeus = Burton: Lysander = Vernon : Demetrius W. Palmer: Quince Love: Bottom Yates Flute Baddeley: Starveling Parsons: Hippolita = Mrs. Hopkins: Hermia Miss Young: Helena Mrs. Vincent: Fairies Master Cape,&c.this piece was in 5 acts-it was acted but one night -it is a bad alteration of the original-nearly the whole of the Mock Play is omitted, and Shakspeare's piece is turned into a sort of Opera with 33 songsthe dialogue is in general judiciously curtailed, but some few lines of the original, which are omitted should have been retained-Shakspeare makes his Athenians talk of Diana's nuns and of going a Maying-it is strange that the person who altered this play should not have omitted two such palpable absurdities--the alteration was attributed originally to Colman, but it seems that it was made by Garrick, and that Colman only superintended the Rehearsals at his desire-see B. D. From the Latin Princes of the 14th Century, Boccace, Chaucer, and Shakspeare have borrowed their Theseus Duke of Athens-an ignorant age transfers its own language and manners to the most distant times (Gibbon)-the making of the Duke of Athens a character in Edward the Black Prince is perfectly correct, Walter de Brienne, the titular Duke of Athens and Constable of France, lost his life in the field of Poictiers-see Gibbon-end of Chapter 62. 25. Romeo and Juliet. 26. Jealous Wife, with Fairy Tale-this was Midsummer Night's Dream cut down to an afterpieceTheseus, and all the serious characters were omitted. 29. Macbeth = Holland. = 30. Earl of Essex, with, never acted there, Mayor of Garratt. Major Sturgeon Foote : Jerry Sneak Weston Sir Jacob Jollup = Baddeley: Bruin = Moody: Mug Foote: Mrs. Sneak Mrs. Clive. Dec. 1. Cymbeline. Posthumus Powell, 1st time. 5. Spanish Fryar. Gomez Foote. 9. For the author Mayor of Garratt. = = = of the Farce. Tempest, with = 10. Never acted, The Dupe. Sir John Woodall =Yates: Sharply King: Friendly Havard: Wellford (in love with Emily) = Packer: Mrs. Etherdown = Mrs. Pritchard: Mrs. Friendly (a great talker) = Mrs. Clive Emily (niece to Sir John-in love with Wellford) = Mrs. Palmer: Rose (woman to Mrs. Etherdown) = Mrs. Lee :-Sir John is an old debauchee, who piques himself on his sagacity, and who is rather pleased than displeased with any allusion to his vices he had kept Mrs. Etherdown for some time, and was at last prevailed on to marry her-he had taken care to have the ceremony performed in such a manner that she could not prove her marriage -Sir John had been detained at a friend's house by a fit of the gout-Mrs. Etherdown, during his absence pretended to be brought to bed of a son-Sharply is her confederate, whom she had introduced to Sir John as her brother-in his scenes with Sir John he pretends to be a fool-he wants to marry Emily in the hopes of her succeeding to Sir John's propertyMrs. Etherdown wants him to seduce her-he decoys her to Mrs. Private's-Rose is fond of Sharply -she overhears the conversation between Mrs. Etherdown and Sharply-from motives of jealousy, she informs Friendly that Sharply had carried off Emily -Friendly rescues her-Sir John is so irritated with Friendly's remarks that he acknowledges his marriage—Mrs. Etherdown now assumes her real character-she treats Sir John with insolence, and sets him at defiance-Friendly lets Sir John into the knowledge of Mrs. Etherdown's secret practices, which he had learnt from Rose and Sharply-Sir John, in the last scene, acknowledges that he has been made a Dupe-he gives his niece to Wellford -this C. was acted but 3 times, it is in some parts a little dull for want of incident, but on the whole it is a good play-it certainly deserved a better fateMrs. Friendly in the hands of Mrs. Clive must have been an excellent character-Victor foretold to Mrs. Sheridan, that her play would be disliked, but he did not expect, that it would have been treated with such ill-nature as it was. 14. Conscious Lovers. Young Bevil Holland : Obrien: Myrtle Palmer: Cimberton = Tom = Sealand Havard: Indiana Mrs. Yates, 1st time: Phillis 66 Mrs. Clive. 17. Alchemist. Abel Drugger = Weston, 1st time: Kastril = King: Dol Common = Mrs. Lee :-the author of Theatrical Biography in 1772 says-" Imagination cannot form a more natural mixture of pusillanimity and consternation, than Weston shows "in Abel Drugger on the breaking of the phial— "other actors would have only made you laugh under "the same circumstances, but his powers do more, 66 they oblige you to pity him; nor is there a moment, "whilst he is on the stage in this character, in which you do not forget it is fictitious." 66 26. London Merchant. Thorowgood Love. 28. Bold Stroke for a Wife. Col. Feignwell King: Obediah Prim Moody: Periwinkle Parsons: Sir Philip Modelove Baddeley: Tradelove = Burton Simon Pure Vaughan: Anne Lovely = = Miss Haughton : Mrs. Prim-Mrs. Bradshaw. Jan. 3. Way to keep him. Lovemore = Holland, 1st time: Widow Belmour Miss Pope. = 4. Merry Wives. Falstaff Love: Ford Havard: Sir Hugh Evans Yates: Dr. Caius Baddeley : Slender Obrien: Mrs. Ford Mrs. Pritchard. = 7. Zara. Lusignan Powell, 1st time: Zara= Mrs. Yates. = = 9. Way of the World. Mirabell Palmer: Fainall Havard: Witwoud Obrien: Sir Wilful Witwoud Yates: Millamant Mrs. Pritchard: Mrs. Marwood = Mrs. Hopkins: Lady Wishfort: Mrs. Clive: Foible Mrs. Bennett. = 13. Recruiting Officer. Plume = Palmer: Brazen = Obrien: Kite = Bransby: Balance Havard : Worthy = Lee: Bullock Moody: Recruits Yates, and Parsons: Sylvia Mrs. Yates: Melinda Mrs. Davies: Rose Miss Cheney. = = = = 14. Mistake. Don Carlos Holland, 1st time. 18. Henry 4th part 2d. Falstaff Love: King = Powell, 1st time: Prince of Wales Holland: Archbishop of York = Havard: Shallow Yates: Pistol King: Hostess Mrs. Bradshaw: Dol Tearsheet Mrs. Lee. = = 23. Drummer-as before. 25. Suspicious Husband. Ranger Obrien, 1st time: Jack Meggot = Vernon : Clarinda = Mrs. Yates Jacintha Miss Plym, 1st time. = 27. Much ado. Benedick = Obrien, 1st time: Beatrice Miss Pope. = Feb. 9. Spanish Fryar. Dominic Love: Gomez Yates: Torrismond Holland: Bertran Lee : Queen Mrs. Yates: Elvira Miss Pope. 14. Orphan. Castalio Powell, 1st time: Chamont Holland: Polydore = Jackson, 1st time: Chaplain Love: Monimia Mrs. Yates. = = 18. Funeral. Lord Hardy Holland: Trim = Yates Campley Obrien: Lady Brumpton = = Mrs. Pritchard Lady Harriet Miss Bride: Lady Charlot Mrs. Hopkins. = = |