Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Alter'd from
Shakespear. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the
Toy Shop.
Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 26 Feb.: On Monday Night last a great Disturbance happened at
Drury-lane Play-house, occasioned by a great Number of Footmen, who assembled themselves in a riotous
and tumultuous Manner, with great Outcries of burning the House, unless they were immediately admitted into what they call their Gallery;
and in order to strike a Terror, they began to hew down the Door of the Passage which leads to the said Gallery, of which
Col. Deveil, who was then in the House, had immediate Notice,
and thereupon came out where they were thus assembled,
and notwithst
anding they threatened to knock his Brains out, he read the Proclamation to them, admonish'd them to retire,
and desist from so unlawful an undertaking. [The footmen soon withdrew.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens
Performance Comment: As17361227, but Chloe-Mrs Cross.Related Works
Related Work: Timon of Athens Author(s): Richard Cumberland
Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield