Their Majesties' Servants. Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3). Doran John

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Shylock on 14th February, 1741.

33

"Miss Lucy in Town" was produced at Drury Lane this season.

34

Verbruggen died before Betterton.

35

Should be on the 26th.

36

Davies and Murphy both give the name as "Lyddal."

37

Lyddal.

38

Should read: – "Millamour, created by him in Fielding's 'Wedding Day,' Lothario, Wildair."

39

This list is very inaccurate. It is obviously taken from Genest, iv. 38, but Dr. Doran has mistaken the meaning of Genest's list, which includes only those nights for which the bill is not given in the text. The record should stand thus: – Hamlet, fifteen times; Richard and Bayes, fourteen; Archer, eleven; Lear, seven; Fondlewife and Hastings, five; Chamont, four; Plume, five; Clodio, four; Pierre, three; Abel Drugger, four or five times, it cannot be decided which. Then the Schoolboy must be added to the list of occasional characters; and it should be noted that there are no bills for April 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.

40

There is some obscurity about this date. Garrick's handbill in answer to Macklin's "case" says that the latter was published in order to prejudice him that night, and the bill is dated 5th December 1743; but, in succeeding advertisements, the disturbance is alluded to as "Tuesday night's" riot. Now Tuesday was certainly the 6th, not the 5th.

41

It is extremely improbable that Foote was the unnamed "Gentleman" who played Hamlet on this occasion.

42

Cashell's Hamlet was a personal eccentricity on his benefit night; not an attempt on the part of the theatre to oppose Garrick.

43

Very doubtful. The statement rests on Victor's authority.

44

Faulconbridge and Iago seem also to have been new characters this season.

45

This refers to the new Smock Alley, 1735.

46

Should be, "Love Makes a Man."

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