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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: D. L. 1708-1709. Belinda in Old Batchelor? Miranda in Busy Body. Hay. 1709-1710. Ophelia?Harriet in Man of the Mode. L. I. F. 1715-1716. Olivia in Plain Dealer- Lady Fanciful?Cornelia in Feigned Courtezans. 1716-1717. Miranda in Woman's a Riddle? Morayma in Don Sebastian. 1720-4 721. Mrs. Ford?Bellernante in Emperor of the Moon?in Much ado about Nothing?probably Beatrice?Alinda in Pilgrim?Mademoiselle in Artful Husband. 1722-1723. Hillaria in Love's last Shift. 1723-1724. Paulina in Sisters altered?Elvira in Spanish Fryar. Originally. There are several seasons in which she seems to have had no engagement. PANTOMIMES And ENTERTAINMENTS. The Performers who were under Rich's direction were so inferior to those at D. L. that the latter carried away all the applause and favour of the town? Victor says, they could never see any thing like an audience to any play without an interest made for it, till the success of Pantomimes and the Beggar's Opera?in this distress the Genius of Rich suggested to him a species of entertainment which has always been considered by persons of sense as contemptible, but which at the same time has ever been followed and encouraged?Pantomimes were brought forward, and as sound and show in the last century obtained a victory over sense and reason; the same event would have followed again, if the company at D. L. had not, from the experience of past times, thought it advisable to adopt the same measures. The fertility of Rich's invention in these exotic entertainments and the excellence of his own performance in that line must be ever acknowledged? by means of these only he kept the managers of the other house from relaxing their diligence; and to the disgrace of the public taste frequently obtained more money by such ridicu...

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