*p1716 11 06 dl Tamerlane. ^As17161105^.*c1716 11 06 dl <i>Ryder, Diary</i>, pp. 359-60: Went to see the tragedy of <i>Tamerlane</i> which was acted with a new prologue in honour of $King William= and in memory of what he did for us. The play itself is good....$Mills= who acted the part of <i>Bajazet</i>r did it mighty well and expressed that furiousness and rage and malice and ambition admirably well in his gesture at the end, but, which is his distinguishing character, very well kept up throughout. I observed in the general that the manner of speaking in our theatres in tragedy is not natural. There is something that would be very shocking and disagreeable and very unnatural in real life. Persons would call it theatrical, meaning by that something stiff and affected.