Event Comment: Oratorio: Written by the late
Dr Hawksworth. Set to music by
Stanley. Books of the Oratorio may be had of
Mr Condell, in
Cross St.,
Bow St.,
Covent Garden, and at the theatre the night of the performance. Price 1s. [This night
Wm. Kenrick delivered his tenth, and apparently last, lecture on
The School of Shakespeare. It was on
King Lear, and very little could be said in favor of any of his remarks on the passages he selected...[he closed by] presenting the audience an act from
Falstaff's Wedding."
Monthly Miscellany (April 1774, p. 191), which had reviewed all of his lectures, had commented upon the increasing popularity of them as evidenced by the numbers attending, and presented an engraving of Kenrick in action before his audience.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Egypt
Performance Comment: Parts were: Pharaoh King of Egypt-; Sephres his son-; Menytis, Sister to Pharoah-; Officers of Court-; Chorus of Egyptians-; Chorus of Israelites-; Moses-; 1st Israelite-; 2nd Israelite- (Larpent MS).