Event Comment: Benefit for
Mrs Jordan. [In mainpiece
the playbill retains
King as
Sir Peter Teazle, but "
Murray, on account of
the indisposition of King, was
the Sir Peter to Mrs Jordan's
Lady Teazle" (
Monthly Mirror, May 1797, p. 311).] Tickets delivered for
the 15th [for which day
the benefit was first announced] will be admitted. "On
the whole, Mrs Jordan's Lady Teazle, if not excellent, was respectable;
and at a time when it was thought that it would be impossible to personify her Ladyship [i.e. after
the retirement of
Miss Farren], Mrs Jordan is commendable in having endeavoured it...[Sir Peter] was a part well suited to Murray, who excels in
the still
and the pa
thetic...In
the screen scene his mirth in revealing to
Charles the story of
the French milliner,
and his amazement
the moment after when Charles, throwing down
the screen, presented that milliner in
the shape of Lady Teazle, must confirm
the reputation of Murray. 'Lady Teazle!' (exclaimed he, turning from her towards
the door,
and in an accent alarmingly impressive), 'Lady Teazle, by all that is damnable!" (
Monthly Visitor, June 1797, pp. 531-32).
True Briton, 6 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan, No. 14,
Somerset-street,
Portman-square. Receipts: #550 3s. (232.4.0; 72.2.0; 7.10.6; tickets: 238.6.6) (charge:
free)