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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. DKUEY LANE, AND THE TWO THEATRES IN DRURY LANE AND COVENT GARDEN. Craven House--Donne and his vision--Lord Craven and the Queen of Bohemia--Nell Gwynn--Drury Lane Theatre--Its antiquity, different eras, and rebuildings--The principal theatre of Dryden, Wycherley, Farquhar, Steele, Garrick, and Sheridan--Old Drury in the time of Charles H.--A visit to it--Pepys and his theatrical gossip, with notes--Hart ami Mohun--Goodman--Nell Gwynn--Dramatic taste of that age--Booth--Artificial tragedy--Wilks and Gibber--Bullock and Penkethman--A Colonel enamoured of Gibber's wig--Mrs. Oldfield--Her singular position in society--Not the Flavia of the Tatler--Pope's account of her last words pro bably not true--Declamatory acting--Lively account of Garrick and Quin by Mr. Cumberland--Improvement of stage costume--King--Mrs. Pritchard--Mrs. Clive--Mrs. Woffington--Covent Garden--Barry--Contradictory characters of him by Davies and Churchill--Macklin--Woodward--Pantomime--English taste in music--Cookc--Rise of actors and actresses in social rank--Improvement of the audience--Dr. Johnston at the theatre--Churchill a great pit critic--His Rosciad--His picture of Mossop--Mrs. Jordan and Mr. Suett--Early recollections of a play-goer. RURY LANE takes its name from "the habitation of the great family of the Druries," built, "I believe," says Pennant, " by Sir William Drury, knight of the garter, a most able commander in the Irish wars, who unfortunately fell in a duel with Sir John Burroughs, in a foolish quarrel about precedency. Sir Robert, his son, was a great patron of Dr. Donne, and assigned to him apartments in his house. I eannot learn into whose hands it passed afterwards. During the time of the fatal discontents of the favourite, Essex, it was the place whe...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154287363
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 194
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115428736X
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 354 gr


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