*p1793 10 09 cg Hamlet. Hamlet-Holman; Ghost-Farren; Horatio-Harley; Laertes-Middleton; King-Powel; Polonius-Munden; Ostrick-Bernard; Rosencraus-Macready; Guildenstern-Davies; Player King-Thompson; Marcellus-Evatt; Grave@Diggers-Quick, Rees; Ophelia-Miss Poole (1st appearance on any stage); <i>Mad Bess</i>-Miss Poole; Player Queen-Mrs Platt; Queen-Mrs Pope.*a1793 10 09 cg Three Weeks after Marriage. Sir Charles Racket-Lewis; Lovelace-Farley; Woodley-Macready; Drugget-Quick; Dimity-Mrs Fawcett; Mrs Drugget-Mrs Leicester; Nancy-Miss Grist; Lady Racket-Mrs Mattocks.*s1793 10 09 cg In V: a <i>Dirge</i> set to music by $Shield=, the words from $Shakespeare=; Vocal Parts-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Clendining, Miss Hopkins, Miss Stuart, Miss Barnett, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Masters, Miss Paye, Mrs Blurton, Mrs Castelle, Miss Leserve, Williamson, Linton, Street, Gray.*c1793 10 09 cg Mainpiece: With new Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. [This was the version, altered probably by $Joseph George Holman=, in which he appeared in <i>Dublin</i> on 29 July 1794, on which occasion the playbill reads, "Dressed in the Habits of the Times, and with other Alterations, adopted in its Representations 19 [recte 11] Nights last Winter, at the Theatre Royal, <i>Covent Garden</i>." It further states that the part of <i>Ophelia</i>r would be performed "without the Airs, and with a considerable Restoration of the Text." No record of what these alterations consisted of has come to light. In III.iv Hamlet's father was represented by a life-sized portrait that hung over the chimney, and the <i>Queen</i>r wore a large miniature of <i>Claudius</i> on her arm as a bracelet (<i>London Chronicle</i>, 10 Oct.). The words of the Dirge are printed in <i>European Magazine</i>, Nov. 1793, p. 393; they are stanza X of $Shakespeare='s <i>Passionate Pilgrim</i>. $Miss Poole= had appeared as a singer at <i>king's</i> and at <i>Vauxhall</i> in 1787 and at the <i>cg</i> oratories in 1791.] Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years [and in place of <i>The Prisoner at Large</i>, advertised on playbill of 8 Oct.]. Receipts: #332 4s. (330.3; 2.1).