Event Comment: [
Seymour is identified in
European Magazine, Oct. 1787, p. 315. Address by
Edward Hickey Seymour (
London Chronicle, 4 Oct.).] "The clock striking two -instead of the usual folly of a small table bell, when
Macbeth's drink was ready -forms an alteration of much good sense and propriety" (
World, 2 Oct.). "Of the Lady Macbeths [since the time of
Garrick]
Mrs Siddons has exhibited the most happy effect of her skill -has shown a portrait of
Lady Macbeth which before existed but in imagination.
Mrs Yates claims the second place of eminence; her deportment and manner were equal to
Mrs Siddons, but very inferior to her in pathos and energy.
Mrs Pope's performance lays claim to praise, particularly in the sleeping scene, but there is a certain delicacy and tenderness associated with the powers of that lady which prevents her giving a glowing picture of that female fiend.
Mrs Bates's performance was sufficiently marking and bold in some passages, but the whole wanted uniformity and finishing" (
Public Advertiser, 4 Oct.). Receipts: #225 (224.5; 0.15)