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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IIL ENGLAND AND IRELAND. The season 1757-8 was the last of the series during whicu Barry opposed Garrick. At the close of it, Spranger proceeded to Dublin, taking with him from Drury Lane, versatile Woodward, to retain whom Garrick would not increase his salary. At Drury, Garrick brought out Home's Agis, with a cast including himself, Mossop, and Mrs. Cibber; Mrs. Pritchard and Mrs. Yates! The piece failed notwithstanding. Walpole would not praise it, and the angry author would never speak, or even bow to him, afterwards. Gray compared this piece to an antique statue which Home had painted white and red, and dressed in a negligee, made by a York mantua-maker ! Other critics found in Agis, Charles I. treacherously dealt with by the Scots, whereby the author had intended to punish his nation for its bigotry with regard to the drama generally, and Douglas in particular. Walpole addd that Home was a goose for writing a second tragedy at all, after having succeeded so well with the first. It was unfortunate for this critic that Agis was written before Douglas, though it followed in succession of representation. Murphy, who had been a student at St. Omer's, a clerk in a city bank, an unsuccessful actor, and a political writer; who, moreover, was refused a call to the bar by the benchers of the Temple and Gray's Inn, on the ground of his having been a player! but who was admitted by the less bigoted benchers of Lincoln's ton, ?feeling his way towards comedy illustrative of character, by farces descriptive of foibles, very humorously satirized the quidnuncs who then abounded, in his Upholsterer, or What Next 3 in which Garrick acted Pamphlet, as carefully as he did Ranger or King Lear. But Garrick's chief concern was to replace Woodward, and in this ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217145329
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217145329
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 299 gr


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