HISTORY OF THE THEATRE S O F LONDON and DUBLIN, From the Year 1730 to the present Time. An ANNUAL REGISTER Of all the Plays, &c. performed at the THEATRES- With occafional NOTES and ANECDOTES. By Mr. VICTOR, Late one of the Managers of the Theatre-Royal in Dublin. VOL. II. DUBLIN: Printed for G. FAULKNER, and J. EXSHAW, OF 3.2 foods to SH In mods ovig of om lo LQEN DQpNVand Di UB LOAN. swath of adipoM Inoval piari, egidiyoish T my Arrival in England, my hot newjed, nolungmo Summer Retreat was to the delightful Solitude of WOLSE LEY, where all the rural flea ver 10 engtho la fures are to be enjoy'd' in the utmost Perfection, on by the Man who carries there a contented Mind; but that Bleffing (for the "first Time in my Life) was then deffied me. A 2 At At my Return to London, and converfing with my theatrical Friends, they foon perfwaded me to proceed in this Work, which I had made fome Progress in. Their Encouragement, and too much Leifure, prompted me on. But befides the hiftorical Account of thefe Twentyfeven Years paft, and the various Anecdotes within that Period, they demanded of me to give them a Lift of the first Set of Actors within my Memory, and, after defcribing their several Merits, to draw a Comparison between them, and the prefent Set of Performers, that are the Delight of the Public. But Comparisons are dangerous, as well as odious: If they should be made to the Difadvantage of the living Actor, it might do him fome Injury in his Bufinefs. If a certain low Come |