Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Miss Talbot to Miss Carter (28 Nov.): My other amusement was going to see Much Ado about Nothing, which has always been one of my favourite comedies, as surely a most excellent vein of pleasantry runs through the whole. It was incomparably acted, and I know not when we have spent so laughing an evening (Letters, 2 vols. (London 1808), I, 239). Receipts:#80 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: No play at Covent Garden (Cross). Because Mr Barry & Mrs Cibber would not play (Winston MS 7)

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: This day is publish'd a Guide to the Stage; or Select Instructions and Precedents from the best Authorities towards forming a polite Audience; with some account of the Players, &c. Printed and sold by D. Job, at the Spread Eagle in King St. [An ironical post-Addisonian quip at theatrical behavior]: I boldly enter the lists as the first champion for theatric decorum. The next thing to be consider'd is disapprobation, which I think may be sufficiently shewn, by an attention to something else, by loud discourse, profuse laughter, and the like. I cannot help thinking it a little out of character, for a polite audience to distort their features by a hiss: however for the sake of some ambitious youths, who thus love to signalize themselves, I shall leave a new play to their mercy. They then are at liberty to exercise their several talents whether they hiss or groan most successfully, or have a greater genius for the cat-call. If you desire to know when you are to shew your dislike, my answer is, when anything displeases you, or in fine when you will provided you have a strong party to second you; for the best hiss or groan in the universe may be drown'd in a general applause. [Never laugh at what passes on stage save it be an error, blunder, or accident. In tragic scenes avoid being visibly moved by humming a tune, regarding the audience, engaging in conservation, or turning your back to the stage. When a female social rival calls attention to herself and away from the stage, let fall your handkerchief into the pit, or call out to an acquaintance in the opposite box, or burst into loud and unexpected laughter. You'll know when to applaud, for the actors will tell you.] On these occasions Cato looks more than unusually big, Hamlet stares with great emphasis, Othello has a most languishing aspect, Monimia is all sighs and softness, Beatrice will bridle, and pretty Peggy Wildair leers you into a clap. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Event Comment: N.B. The entertainment of Robin Hood is oblig'd to be deferr'd for a few days on account of the indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Event Comment: Publish'd this day A Guide to the Stage, (2nd Edition, with additions) at 6d. [See 10 Dec.] Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the particular Desire of Several persons of Quality. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Event Comment: Publish d, The Theatrical Manager. A Dramatic Satire, London T. Lowns (Register of Books, Gentleman's Magazine, Jan. 1751, p. 48). Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. The Play of the Revenge, mentioned in one of yesterday's papers to have been rehearsed on Saturday last in St Paul's School, was got up by some of the scholars during the late holiday, without the consent or knowledge of the Master, but will not be performed on Saturday (General Advertiser). Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)