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Title: Shakspere to Sheridan; a book about the theatre of yesterday and to-day
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Thaler, Alwin, 1891-
Subjects: Theater -- England History English drama -- History and criticism Actors and actresses -- England Theaters -- England London
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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f these, she writes thatthe Duchess of Queensberry took every available box andtwo hundred and fifty tickets besides; at another, if hermemory served her correctly, she cleared upwards ofeleven hundred pounds. ^ ^ Genest (IV, 553) quotes from the Publick Advertiser of June 20, 1759:The benefit for the distressed Actors, last night, did not answer so well aswas expected; therefore by particular desire another play will be performedJune 16. Occasionally the proprietors bought up the benefits of minorplayers, allowing them instead a flat payment of from thirty to fifty pounds.Observations on Differences at Covent Garden, p. 59; OKeeffe, II, 7; BritishMuseum playbills, Covent Garden, June 12, 1790, etc. 2 Baggss Advertisement, 1709 (reprinted in Edwins Eccentricities, I, 219-224); Gildon, Li/e 0/ Betterton, p. 11; Bellchambers, in his edition of Apology,p. 117; cf. Dutton Cook, Book oj the Play, 3d ed., pp. 273-275. ^ Apology, II, 71. ^ Life oJ G. A. Bellamy, 3d ed., 1785, I, 64; II, 198.
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:\r; sn i THE PLAYERS 85 Such sums, of course, could not be raised without un-usual exertions, and many were the devices used to winsubstantial public support upon these occasions. Fred-erick Reynolds tells us how delightedly the audiencehailed the comedian Shuter one evening in or about 1770when Othello was played. After the performance Shuterput his head through the hole in the green curtain andfacetiously (said) to the audience Remember me to-mor-row; on which immediately followed a loud laugh,after which young Reynolds was informed that the come-dians benefit was on the program for the next night.^Nor did the audiences object to paying the advancedprices frequently charged on benefit nights. It is written,for example, that at Mrs. Pritchards benefit in 1768 thehouse was crouded with the first People of Distinction,at advanced Prices. ^ Further, to help the good workalong and provide places for the largest possible number,playgoers cheerfully sat upon the stage on such occasions,or

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