*p1750 01 01 dl The Tempest; or, The Inchanted Island. Prospero-Bridges; Ferdinand-King; Trincalo-Yates; Hippolito-Mrs Willoughby; Caliban-Blakes; Stephano-Shuter; Mustachio-James; Ventoso-Ray; Sycorax-Taswell; Miranda-Miss Cole; Dorinda-Mrs Green; Ariel-Mrs Clive (with Proper Songs); With Decorations-; particularly: <i>A Dance of Aerial Spirits</i>-Mlle Mariet, Miss Baker, Mrs Shawford, Mrs L'Font; <i>A Dance of Winds</i>-Macneale, Shawford, Pelling, Master Shawford; <i>A Grand Dance of Fantastic Spirits</i>- in the shapes of four Demons, four Monsters, and four Pigmies; Infernals-Reinhold, Bennet; The whole to conclude with the <i>Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite</i>-; Neptune-Beard; Amphitrite-Miss Norris.*a1750 01 01 dl The Anatomist. ^As17491230^.*c1750 01 01 dl With proper scenes, Machines, &c. [This is the $Dryden=-$Davenant= version.] Paid $G. Garrick= balance of his bill #6 13s.; Christmas Box to ye Beadle 3s. 6d.; $Mr Norton= 5 chorus #1 5s.; <i>Xmas</i> Jury #1 1s.; $Mr Madden= for an Embroidered Coat and a velvet suit of Cloaths #12 (Treasurer's Book). [This month was published <i>A Dissertation on Comedy</i> (by $John Hippisley, Jr=) in which the Rise and Progress of that Species of the Drama is particularly considered and deduced from the earliest to the present age. By a Student of <i>Oxford</i>. Printed for $T. Lowndes= (<i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, Register of Books). The "Student of Oxford" seems to have been a Garrick apologist in the extreme: "But whatever reason there may have been formerly for this complaint [the immorality of the stage] since Mr Garrick's management the Stage is become the school of manners and morality: Ribaldry and Profaneness are no longer tolerated, Sense and Nature exert their influence; Pantomime daily declines, Dancers are but little encouraged; the Burletta performs to empty benches, and the British can now vie with the Athenian Drama when in its severest state of purity" (p. 15). Also, from the same source, <i>Reflections on that Species of Dramatic Writing which it improperly call'd Serious Comedy</i>: from the <i>French</i> of $M Maillet du Boulley=.] Receipts: #120 ($Cross=); #126 3s. (Treasurer's Book).