Their Majesties' Servants. Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3)
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Doran John. Their Majesties' Servants. Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3)
CHAPTER I. MRS. OLDFIELD
CHAPTER II. FROM THE DEATH OF ANNE OLDFIELD TO THAT OF WILKS
CHAPTER III. ROBERT WILKS
CHAPTER IV. ENTER GARRICK
CHAPTER V. GARRICK, QUIN, MRS. PORTER
CHAPTER VI. RIVALRY; AND ENTER, SPRANGER BARRY
CHAPTER VII. THE OLD DUBLIN THEATRE
CHAPTER VIII. GARRICK AND QUIN; GARRICK AND BARRY
CHAPTER IX. THE AUDIENCES OF 1700-1750
CHAPTER X. EXIT, JAMES QUIN
CHAPTER XI. ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND
CHAPTER XII. MARGARET WOFFINGTON
CHAPTER XIII. COLLEY CIBBER
CHAPTER XIV. ENGLAND AND IRELAND
CHAPTER XV. RYAN, RICH, O'BRIEN
CHAPTER XVI. SUSANNA MARIA CIBBER
CHAPTER XVII. REAPPEARANCE OF SPRANGER BARRY – RETIREMENT OF MRS. PRITCHARD
CHAPTER XVIII. THE LAST YEARS OF GARRICK AND BARRY
CHAPTER XIX. DAVID GARRICK
CHAPTER XX. SPRANGER AND ANNE BARRY
CHAPTER XXI. KITTY CLIVE, WOODWARD, AND SHUTER
CHAPTER XXII. SAMUEL FOOTE
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Between the season of 1729-30, and that of 1733-34, great changes took place. It is correct to say, that the stage "declined;" but if we lose Mrs. Oldfield in the former period, we find some compensation at the beginning of the latter, by first meeting, in Fielding and Hippisley's booth, at Bartholomew and Southwark fairs, with one who was destined to enthral the town, – modest Mrs. Pritchard, playing Loveit, in a "Cure for Covetousness."
Meanwhile, Mrs. Porter reigned supreme; but the stage was deprived, for more than a year, of the presence of her whom Mrs. Oldfield loved to address as "mother," by an accident which dislocated her thigh. Even after her recovery, the tragedy queen was forced to walk the stage with a crutched stick, which, like a true artist, she turned to account in her action.
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Cibber then accused him of inconsistency, and expressed indifference whether he accepted or rejected the part which he then held in his hand, and which Wilks at once threw down on the table whereupon the angry player sate, with crossed arms, and "knocking his heel upon the floor, as seeming to threaten most when he said least." Booth, good-naturedly, struck in with a cheerful comment, to the effect that, "for his part, he saw no such great matter in acting every day, for he believed it the wholesomest exercise in the world; it kept the spirits in motion, and always gave him a good stomach."
At this friendly advance Mrs. Oldfield was seen laughing behind her fan, while Wilks, after a few hesitating remarks, which showed some little jealousy of Booth, proposed that Mrs. Oldfield should herself select which of the two she would have play with her. He would be glad to be excused if she selected another.
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