TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have beencorrected after careful comparison with other occurrences withinthe text and consultation of external sources.

More detail can be found at the end of the book.


Note.Three Hundred copies of this Edition printed on fine deckle-edgeRoyal 8vo paper. The fifty Portraits are given in duplicate, oneon Japanese and the other on plate paper, as India proofs.

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  No. ........



"Their Majesties' Servants"

Dr. DORAN, F.S.A.

VOLUME THE SECOND


Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON


Frontispiece: Garrick and his Wife

"THEIR MAJESTIES' SERVANTS"

ANNALS

OF

THE ENGLISH STAGE

FROM

THOMAS BETTERTON TO EDMUND KEAN


BY

Dr. DORAN, F.S.A.


EDITED AND REVISED BY ROBERT W. LOWE


With Fifty Copperplate Portraits and Eighty Wood Engravings


IN THREE VOLUMES

VOLUME THE SECOND


LONDON

JOHN C. NIMMO

14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND

MDCCCLXXXVIII


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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.PAGE
MRS. OLDFIELD1
 
CHAPTER II.
FROM THE DEATH OF ANNE OLDFIELD TO THAT OF WILKS21
 
CHAPTER III.
ROBERT WILKS32
 
CHAPTER IV.
ENTER GARRICK49
 
CHAPTER V.
GARRICK, QUIN, MRS. PORTER71
 
CHAPTER VI.
RIVALRY; AND ENTER, SPRANGER BARRY86
 
CHAPTER VII.
THE OLD DUBLIN THEATRE99
 
CHAPTER VIII
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