03 April 1696

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Theatre: no theater listed
Theatrical Season: 1695-1696
Volume: 1
Comments: In spite of decrees concerning the transfer of a player from one house to another, Dogget entered into an agreement with Rich's Company. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, pp. 338-39. Cibber, Apology, I, 229: And the late Reputation which Dogget had acquired from acting his Ben in Love for Love, made him a more declared Male-content on such Occasions; he over-valued Comedy for its being nearer to Nature than Tragedy, which is allow'd to say many fine things that Nature never spoke in the same Words; and supposing his Opinion were just, yet he should have consider'd that the Publick had a Taste as well as himself, which in Policy he ought to have complied with. Dogget, however, could not with Patience look upon the costly Trains and Plumes of Tragedy, in which knowing himself to be useless, he thought were all a vain Extravagance: And when he found his Singularity could no longer oppose that Expence, he so obstinately adhered to his own Opinion, that he left the Society of his old Friends, and came over to us at the Theatre-Royal: This happened in the Winter following the first Division of the (only) Company

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    *p7?none Comment. *c7?none In spite of decrees concerning the transfer of a player from one house to another, $Dogget= entered into an agreement with <i>Rich's Company</i>. See <i>Nicoll, Restoration Drama</i>, pp. 338-39. <i>Cibber, Apology</i>, I, 229: And the late Reputation which Dogget had acquired from acting his <i>Ben</i>r in <i>Love for Love</i>, made him a more declared Male-content on such Occasions; he over-valued Comedy for its being nearer to Nature than Tragedy, which is allow'd to say many fine things that Nature never spoke in the same Words; and supposing his Opinion were just, yet he should have consider'd that the Publick had a Taste as well as himself, which in Policy he ought to have complied with. Dogget, however, could not with Patience look upon the costly Trains and Plumes of Tragedy, in which knowing himself to be useless, he thought were all a vain Extravagance: And when he found his Singularity could no longer oppose that Expence, he so obstinately adhered to his own Opinion, that he left the Society of his old Friends, and came over to us at the <i>Theatre-Royal</i>: This happened in the Winter following the first Division of the (only) Company.

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    *p1696 04 03 none Comment.*c1696 04 03 none In spite of decrees concerning the transfer of a player from one house to another, $Dogget= entered into an agreement with <i>Rich's Company</i>. See <i>Nicoll, Restoration Drama</i>, pp. 338-39. <i>Cibber, Apology</i>, I, 229: And the late Reputation which Dogget had acquired from acting his <i>Ben</i>r in <i>Love for Love</i>, made him a more declared Male-content on such Occasions; he over-valued Comedy for its being nearer to Nature than Tragedy, which is allow'd to say many fine things that Nature never spoke in the same Words; and supposing his Opinion were just, yet he should have consider'd that the Publick had a Taste as well as himself, which in Policy he ought to have complied with. Dogget, however, could not with Patience look upon the costly Trains and Plumes of Tragedy, in which knowing himself to be useless, he thought were all a vain Extravagance: And when he found his Singularity could no longer oppose that Expence, he so obstinately adhered to his own Opinion, that he left the Society of his old Friends, and came over to us at the <i>Theatre-Royal</i>: This happened in the Winter following the first Division of the (only) Company.

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    Event: 2010 | 16960403 | none | In spite of decrees concerning the transfer of a player from one house to another, $Dogget= entered into an agreement with <i>Rich's Company</i>. See <i>Nicoll, Restoration Drama</i>, pp. 338-39. <i>Cibber, Apology</i>, I, 229: And the late Reputation which Dogget had acquired from acting his <i>Ben</i> in <i>Love for Love</i>, made him a more declared Male-content on such Occasions; he over-valued Comedy for its being nearer to Nature than Tragedy, which is allow'd to say many fine things that Nature never spoke in the same Words; and supposing his Opinion were just, yet he should have consider'd that the Publick had a Taste as well as himself, which in Policy he ought to have complied with. Dogget, however, could not with Patience look upon the costly Trains and Plumes of Tragedy, in which knowing himself to be useless, he thought were all a vain Extravagance: And when he found his Singularity could no longer oppose that Expence, he so obstinately adhered to his own Opinion, that he left the Society of his old Friends, and came over to us at the <i>Theatre-Royal</i>: This happened in the Winter following the first Division of the (only) Company

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