INDEX.

ACTING, amateur, of the blacksmith, in "Andromache,"

i. 193.

Actor, the fat, and the rustic, i. 97.

and the daisies, ii. 11.

, amateur, at Liverpool, ii. 93.
epitaph on, ii. 226.

the woman, Johu Hunnieman, account of, ii. 227.
of modest merit, iii. 53.

Actors, list of, not usually printed in the carly play bills
i. 263.

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of female characters prior to the Restoration, iii. 21.
disappointments, occasioned to an audience by,

iii. 268.

Actress, the first female, Mrs. Saunderson, iii. 44.
Addison, his plot of "Cato," ii. 77,

Albergati Capelli, Marquis, the Italian actor and dramatist,
his biography, i. 157.

Alfieri, gallantry of, i. 285.

Alleyn, Edward, his biography, ii. 228.

American theatricals, account of the first tragedy at Boston,

i. 15.

Andrecini, Isabella, account of, i. 30.

"Andromache," a singular tragedy, by Thomas Paine,
i. 283.

Ariosto, his interview with his father, iii. 111.
Authors, dramatic, in France, their rights, i. 68.

Baddeley, the comedian, his will, i. 271.

Baillie's, (Miss,) "De Montfort," the incident on which it
is founded, ii. 1.

Bannister, Charles, his repartee to M. P. Andrews, ii. 111.
Barca, Calderon de la, plot of his "Scisma d' Anglaterra,"
ii. 15.

Baron, the French Actor, his vanity, i. 84.

Roquelaire, ii. 85.

i. 21.

Biography, i. 123.

Interview with the Duc de

Barry, Spranger, and the carpenter of the Dublin Theatre,

his entertainment to Mr. Pelham, i. 47.
in bis zenith and decline, i. 240.
performance of Romeo, i. 76.

influence with his creditors, ii. 146.
-, powers of persuasion, iii. 161.
and Grogan, the mercer, iii. 166.

Barry, Mrs., her differences with Mrs. Boutelle, iii. 185.
Barthe, the French dramatic author, his selfishness, i. 284.
Bartley, Mr. and Mrs., their treatment by the Puritans of
Connecticut, ii. 78.

Bath Theatre, its patent as a Theatre Royal, i. 200.
Beaumont and Fletcher, suspected treason of, i. 30.
their similarity of taste, iii. 110.

Beggar's Opera, origin of, i. 25.

Mr. Colman's reply to the Bow Street Ma-
nagers, concerning, i. 26.

travestied, i. 75.

account of money received at its first per-

formance, i. 254..

,

Duke and Dutchess of Queensbury forbid

the Court for attending the, i. 282.

a satire on the Italian Opera, ii. 262.
Walker's memory as "Macheath," iii. 43.
translated into French, iii. 206.

Bejart, a French comedian, bis successful equivoque, ii. 19.
Bellamy, Mrs., her quarrel with Mrs. Hamilton, i. 160.
Bensley, his reply to a Scotch Officer, ii. 123.

Betterton, his death, account of, ii. 50.

character, of, by Booth, ii. 51.

Betty, Master, his debut, ii. 107.

Bill, Theatrical, on the feast of St. Margaret, in 1511,i. 122.

of the Kilkenny Theatre, i. 159.

their early use, i. 262.

manager's mistake in, ii. 21.
Spanish, ii. 29.

at Offenburgh, in Baden, ii. 212.

Boissy, the French dramatist, his distressing condition,
ii. 100.

Bond, the tragedian, bis death, i. 144.

Booth, Junius Brutus, Manley's letter to, i. 65.
Boswell, Mr. James, theatrical imitation of, i. 210.
Boutelle, Mrs., her differences with Mrs. Barry, iii. 185.
Bowen, the comedian, his fatal rencontre with Quin,iii. 211.
Bowman, a player, in the time of Charles II., his death, i. 284.
Box-keepers, account of the riches of, iii. 213.
Burgoyne, General, and the strolling players, i. 259.
Byron, Lord, his opinion of the British Drama, iii. 11.

Cadoret, the French mimic, account of, ii. 110.

Capiola, Galeira, the Roman actress, her great age, i. 205.
Carlini, the Italian comedian, his melancholy, ii. 68.
Cashel, Oliver, the comedian, account of, iii. 177.

Catley, Ann, biography of, i. 91.

Centlivre, Mrs., success of her comedy,

ii. 40.

her biography, ii. 215.

"The Busy Body,"

Cervetti, the fiddler, his unexpected interview with a cri-
minal, ii. 265.

Characters, list of, not usually printed in the early bills,
i. 263.

Cherry, Andrew, the actor and dramatist, his wit, i. 35.

biography, i. 273.
Children of Powles, actors in the time of Queen Elizabeth,
i. 102.

Chinese play bill, description of, i. 36.

Chorus, a portion of the earlier English plays, i. 213.
Cibber, Mrs., Miss Seward's opinion of, i, 167.

, lines on the sixth night of his "Julius Cæsar,"

Colley, I

i. 83.

iii. 60.

-, plot of" The Careless Husband," i. 164.

his opinion of Garrick, ii. 110.

-, performance of Bayes, in "The Rehearsal,"

Cibber, Colley, his personation of Lord Foppington, iii. 188.
his difference with Bickerstaff, iii. 238.
Theophilus, his pretended poverty, iii. 193.
Charlotte, ber distresses, ii. 177.

Clairon, Madame, history of her early days, ii. 9.
Clive, Mrs. anecdotes of, related by Miss Hawkins, i. 48.
her advice to young players, i. 201.

her biography, iii. 92.

Clough, the actor, his fondness for executions, iii. 129.
Clowns, account of, in the early state of the drama, iii, 155.
Clubs, the unsuccessful, qualifications for, ii. 33.

Colman, Senior, his witty reply to one of his comedians,
ii. 163.

Comedy, the perpetual, i. 1.

Congreve, William, his defence of the Stage, iii. 234.
Conjuror, the Bottle, advertisement and account of, iii. 69.
Connelly, the actor, and the lottery ticket, iii. 40.
Cooke, G. F. and the Scotch manager, i. 23.

ii. 106.

ii. 142.

a retort of, i. 64.

impromptu on an apple being thrown at,

his witty reply to the Liverpool manager,

explanation of the family plate, ii. 143.
adventures at Limerick, ii. 199.

his advice to Mathews, the comedian, iii. 55.
bis interview with a coxcomb, iii. 131.

T. P. his early life, ii. 97.

Corneille, his tragedy of " Andromeda,” ii. 89.

Covent Garden Theatre, reversion of its patent, i. 219.
Coutts, Mrs., (late Miss Mellon,) anecdotes of, iii. 282.
Cowley, epigram on his tragedy, of "The Fall of Sparta,"
i. 84.

Cox, Robert, composer of " Drolls," account of, ii. 240.
Crebillon, his tragedy of "Cataline," i. 110.

last illness, i. 149.

-, right of property, i. 206.

a lover of solitude, i. 224.

"Cries of London," a comedy, extract from, ii. 238.
Critics in the time of Queen Elizabeth, i. 187.
Cross, Mrs., recognition of, by her husband, ii. 42.
Crowne, John, the dramatist, account of, iii. 194.
Cummins, his sudden death on the stage, ii. 166.

Dancourt, the French author, his unsuccessful comedies,

ii. 88.

Davenant, Sir William, account of,

58.

Death, the actor, witticisms on his name,
Debutant, the feelings of a, i. 78.

i. 131.

De la Motte, success of his tragedy of "Ines De Castro,
i. 88.

Delpini, his remonstrance with the Prince of Wales, i, 259.
Demerara, prologue, spoken at, i. 55.

Dennis, his tragedy of" Liberty Asserted," interview with
the Duke of Malborough, regarding, i. 148.

Destouches, the dramatist, and the Emperor Napoleon, iii. 27.
Dibdin, repartee against his wife, ii. 56.

Didier, Mrs., her farewell address, ii. 169.
Doggett, Thomas, his coat and badge, i. 165.

iii. 240.

excellence in dressing his characters,

Dominique, the French harlequin, bis interview with the
President, Harley, i, 253.

Drama, its infancy in Spain, i. 1.

its origin, i. 69.

the ancient, i. 192.

Louis XIV. ii. 146,

characters in, founded on Sacred Writ, ii. 25.
---, Grecian, Foote's burlesque of, ii. 203

---, origin of the censorship on, ii. 220.

errors of, in "The Humorous Lieutenant," ii. 240.
---, announcement of, at the Arctic Theatre, iii. 53.
---, a singular Chinese, iii. 121.

Dramatist, advice to a, ii. 110.

Dresses, stage, the difference between the modern and the
ancient, i. 266.

in the masques and regular dramas from the 16th
century, ii. 103.

Dryden, his epilogue to " Tyrannic Love," ii. 23.
success of his "Spanish Friar," ii. 234.
and the Duke of Buckingham, iii. 79.

Dufresne, his performance in Voltaire's "Zara," i. 44.
differences with the Abbé Pellegrin, ii. 91.

short account of, ii. 164.

Dambshew introduced in the early English plays, i. 213.
Dumesnil, Madame, her admirable performance, ii. 91.
D'Urfey, Ton, account of, ii. 214.