ANNALS

OF

THE ENGLISH STAGE,

FROM

THOMAS BETTERTON TO EDMUND KEAN.

Actors—Authors—Audiences.

BY DR. DORAN, F. S. A.,

AUTHOR OF TABLE TRAITS," "LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND OF THE HOUSE OF
HANOVER," ETO., ETO.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II

NEW YORK:

W. J. WIDDLETON, PUBLISHER.

1865.

Republished by

Scholarly Press, 22929 Industrial East, St. Clair Shores, Michigan 48080

822.9 D69 1970

V.2

Standard Book Number 403-00234-6

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-107173

This edition is printed on a high-quality, acid-free paper that meets specification requirements for fine book paper referred to as "300-year" paper

VL-Reappearance of Spranger Barry.-Retirement of Mrs.

Pritchard.

VII. The last years of Garrick and Barry

VIII.-David Garrick

IX.-Spranger and Anne Barry

X.-Kitty Clive, Woodward, Shuter

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of Garrick to the end of the Eighteenth Century

XII-Of Authors, and particularly of condemned Authors

XIII. The Audiences of the last half of the Eighteenth Century . 163

XIV.-Charles Macklin

XV.—A Bevy of Ladies;—but chiefly. Mrs. Bellamy, Miss Farren,

XXIII.-Prologue, Epilogue; Dedications, and Benefits

XXIV.-Old Stagers Departing

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XXV.-New Ideas; New Theatres; New Authors; and the New