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CONTENTS
OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
Some account of Mr. Garrick's family...... His early acquaintance
with Mr. Walmsley and Dr. S. Johnson......His voyage to Lisbon
.....Return to England.....Becomes pupil to Dr. Johnson.....Sets
out in company with him for London.
CHAPTER II.
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Mr. Garrick's arrival in London.....Death of his uncle.....He boards
with Mr. Colson.....Death of his father and mother..... Seriously
resolved to commence actor..... Introduced to the playhouse mana-
gers..... Sets out with the comedians for Ipswich..... His success
there.
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CHAPTER III.
Characters of the actors when Mr. Garrick commenced player.
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CHAPTER V.
Mr. Garrick's first appearance on a London stage...... His success....
Mr Pope's opinion of him...... Acts a variety of characters......
Envied by Quin.....Spoken slightly of by Colley Cibber......Shares
the profits of Goodman's-fields theatre with the manager.
CHAPTER VI.
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Managers of Drury-lane and Covent-garden uneasy at the success at
Goodman's-fields theatre.... Threaten Giffard and Garrick with a
law suit....They are engaged to Fleetwood....Mr. Garrick plays
for Mrs. Harper at Drury-lane....Goes to Dublin.... Returns to
London.
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CHAPTER VII.
Mr. Garrick acting at Drury lane theatre.....His Abel Drugger com-
pared with Cibber's...... His great attention to propriety of charac-
ters.....His Hamlet described.
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CHAPTER VIII.
Prelude to the revolt of the comedians of Drury-lane......Fleetwood's
character and conduct...... Account of his favourite diversions and
companions......Farms the theatre to his treasurer......Mr. Garrick
and several of the players secede from Drury-lane..... Their appli-
cation to the lord chamberlain.....Their petition rejected.....Con.
test between Garrick and Macklin..... Theatrical storm.....Tancred
and Sigismunda..... Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Cibber.
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CHAPTER IX.
Fleetwood sells the remaining term of his patent, which is purchased
by two bankers.... Mr. James Lacy admitted a third sharer....Mr.
Garrick's second voyage to Dublin....Mr. Sheridan's success in
acting....He obliges Quin to leave Dublin.... Messrs. Sheridan and
Garrick joint managers.... Their success....Mr. Barry's first act-
ing, and reception from the audience....Mr. Garrick returns to
England....Plays at Mr. Rich's theatre, and shares the profits
with the manager.
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CHAPTER X.
Revolution in the theatrical world.....Garrick, Quin, Mrs. Cibber
and Mrs. Pritchard, at Covent-garden.... Barry, Mrs. Woffington,
Macklin, and Mrs. Clive, at Drury lane.....Characters of John
Rich and James Lacy.....The rise of pantomime....The different
success of the theatres.....Mr. Garrick purchases the moiety of
Drury-lane patent.... Profits of Covent-garden, 1747.
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CHAPTER XI.
The managers of Drury-lane divide their several provinces...Mr.
Garrick's particular emoluments.. .Mr. Rich deserted by the best
part of his company, who engage themselves to Mr. Lacy and
Mr. Garrick.... Prologue on opening Drury-lane theatre.... Revival
of Every Man in his Humour.... Macbeth, as originally written.....
Romeo and Juliet acted at both theatres.
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CHAPTER XII.
Irene, a tragedy.....Parts disposed of with propriety.....Its success....
Some account of the play.....Cavils of criticks.....Defence of it.....
Desertion of Barry and Mrs. Cibber to Rich, who unite with Quin
and Woffington.....Romeo and Juliet at Covent garden and Drury-
lane.....Miss Bellamy.....Garrick and Woodward carry all before
them.....Queen Mab, &c.
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CHAPTER XIII.
Character of Aaron Hill.....His various occupations and projects....
His love of the stage.....His dramatick pieces and instructions in
acting.....Intimacy with Booth.....His generosity to authors and
actors.... Reduced to the necessity of acting his Merope for his
own emolument.... Its success....Lord Bolingbroke's letter to him....
His correspondence With Mr. Garrrick....His death..
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CHAPTER XIV.
Managers complained of for not rearing theatrical plants.........Mr.
Garrick engages Mr. Dexter.... Ross.....Mossop.....Their various,
abilities displayed..
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CHAPTER XV.
New tragedies acted in 1753, 1754.... The Gamester....The Brothers
....Creusa and Boadicea....Anecdotes relating to them, and re-
marks on their success.
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CHAPTER XVI.
The Chinese Festival..... Preparations for it....Commanded by the
king.... Account of the disturbance occasioned by it...
CHAPTER XVII.
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Royal taste in acting......The Chances revived..... Mrs. Cibber's
choice of a comick character.....She resigns it.....Mrs. Abingdon's
excellence in Constantia,
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CHAPTER XVIII.
Mr. Foote's frequent engagements with the managers of Drury-lane
....His Fondle wife in the Old Bachelor... Ben in Love for Love,
&c.....Speaks a prologue, written by Mr. Garrick.... His character
of Cadwallader.... Disputes about it....How ended.
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CHAPTER XIX.
Dr. Browne's Barbarossa and Athelstan.....Some observations on
them..... The author's friendship for Mr. Garrick and Dr. War-
burton..... His eulogium of them in his Estimate of the Times.....
His vindication of himself against Dr. Lowth.....His character.
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CHAPTER XX.
A manager's difficulty arising from the offer of new plays and farces
....Reasons assigned for refusing them....Colley Cibber's behaviour
to authors....Mr. Garrick puts a negative on Douglas....Cleone and
the Orphan of China.... Agrees to refer the merit of the latter to
the arbitration of Mr. Whitehead....Manœuvres of the author and
manager, who is obliged to act it.
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CHAPTER XXI.
Mr. Ralph....His application to poetry....Partnership with H. Field-
ing....His Astrologer....Acquaintance with Mrs. Cooper....His
political writings.... Introduction to Mr. Garrick.... Their quarrel....
His progress in politicks.... Death....Mr. Shirley's Edward, the
Black Prince.... Its success....His Orestes.... His resentment of Mr.
Garrick's refusal of it....Their reconciliation....Dr. P. Hiffernan....
Education, &c.....Satire on managers.... Dramatick writings....Quar-
rel and reconciliation with the managers, &c.
CHAPTER XXII.
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Account of Woodward's desertion....He is invited by Barry to become
a partner in his Irish expedition.... His proposal to Garrick rejected
....Reasons for refusing it....He sets out for Ireland.... Unsuccessful
there....Returns to England....His character.
CHAPTER XXIII.
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Archibald Bower's quarrel with Mr. Garrick; with an account of
the actor's resentment.... Purposes to make him a subject for the
stage.... His correspondence on that occasion with lord Lyttleton....
Is diverted from his intention.
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CHAPTER XXIV.
Winter's Tale, and Catherine and Petruchio.....Their alterations
from Shakspeare by Mr. Garrick.....Acting of these plays.....Me-
rits of the several actors.
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