Event Comment: Benefit for
Mrs Ward. Tickets to be had of Mrs
Ward, next door to the
Chapel, in
Little Wild St., and of
Hobson at the stage door. Tickets deliver'd out for
Jane Shore will be taken. A Pamphlet having lately appeared in Ridicule of the late performance of
Othello at
Drury Lane, to which was subjoined an Advertisement in my name,from whence Occasion has been taken to assert, that I was the publisher, the Publick may be assured that advertisement was inserted without my knowledge or consent, that I am entirely ignorant of the Author, nor am the least concerned in that mean invidious affair.
F. Stamper (
General Advertiser). [Stamper possibly refers to
A satirical Dialogue Humbly address'd to the Gentlemen who deformed the play of Othello; with a Prologue and Epilogue, much more suitable to the occasion than their own.
London:
River, 1751, listed in the Register of Books,
Gentleman's Magazine, March 1751, p. 142. Stamper may also be alluding in some way to a Modern Character introduced in the Scenes of
Vanbrugh's
Aesop as it was acted at a late private representation of
King Henry IV, performed gratis at the
Little Opera House in the Haymarket, 3rd edn. 1751, written by F. Stamper. It was published because the farce was hissed off the stage. The Character is a
Spouter who tries to instruct
Aesop in heroics.] Receipts: #210 (
Cross)