*p1794 10 23 cg The Rage! Principal Characters by Lewis, Quick, Holman, Munden, Fawcett, Bernard, Middleton, Davenport, Cross, Rees, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Pope. [Cast from text ($T. N. Longman=, 1795): Gingham-Lewis; Sir Paul Perpetual-Quick; Darnley-Holman [in text: $Pope=]; Flush-Munden; The Hon. Mr Savage-Fawcett; Signor Cygnet-Bernard; Sir George Gauntlet-Middleton; Ready-Davenport; Servants-Cross, Abbot, Ledger, Wilde; Waiter-Rees; Groom-Simmons; Lady Sarah Savage-Mrs Mattocks; Clara Sedley-Mrs Mountain; Mrs Darnley-Mrs Pope; <i>Prologue</i>-Holman; <i>Epilogue</i>-Mrs Mattocks. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 24 performances only (^see17941213^).]*a1794 10 23 cg Cymon. Cymon-Incledon; Dorus-Quick; Merlin-Richardson; Shepherds-Claremont, Abbot; Linco-Fawcett; Fatima-Mrs Martyr; Urganda-Mrs Fawcett; Dorcas-Mr Munden; Shepherdesses-Miss Stuart, Miss Cornelys; Sylvia-Mrs Mountain.*d1794 10 23 cg Afterpiece to conclude with: a <i>Dance</i>-.*c1794 10 23 cg Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by $Frederick Reynolds=. Prologue by $James Boaden=. Epilogue by $Edward Topham= (see text). For this play Reynolds and the <i>cg</i> manager made a new plan for payments to the author. Benefits for the author on the 3rd, 6th and 9th nights were abandoned; instead he received #33 6s. 8d. for each of the first nine nights and #100 on the 20th night. "This was the foundation of that bargain between manager and author which, I believe, exists to the present period [1826]" ($Reynolds=, II, 182-83)]. <i>Morning Chronicle</i>, 19 Jan. 1795: This Day is published <i>The Rage!</i> (2s.). Receipts: #259 13s. 6d. (255.17.6; 3.16.0).