Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. 2nd piece: Never acted here. 4th piece: 1st time at this Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Haymarket

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Young Bevil to Smith, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Brereton's.] Receipts: #141 9s. 6d. (106/19/0; 34/6/6; 0/4/0)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As originally written by Shakespeare. Paid Properties 18s. 4d.; Mantuamaker #5 19s. 9d.; Butler, carpenter, #15; Lampmen #3 18s.; Billstickers #3 3s. Receipts: #189 14s. 6d. (147/3/0; 42/8/6; 0/3/0)

Event Comment: Paid Printers to 21st Inst. #15 3s. 6d.; Booth, tailor, #1 6s. Receipts: #167 19s. 6d. (124/15/0; 42/14/6; 0/10/0)

Event Comment: Receipts: #55 12s. (32/11/0; 22/18/6; 1/2/6)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [In mainpiece the playbill does not list the Child; for the assignment see Morning Post, 10 Oct., and edition of 1787 (Rachael Randall).] "[Mrs Siddons's] merit in the character was infinite, and the applause she received unbounded. In various of her scenes the plaudits were repeated . . . During the fourth and fifth acts there was almost an incessant clapping, and when Isabella expired her death was rendered glorious by the theatre's resounding with thundering applause for more than a minute" (Morning Chronicle, 11 Oct.). "L'actrice la plus noble dans ses manieres, madame Siddons, ne perd rien de sa dignite quand elle se prosterne contre terre . . . Enfin, il arriva ce moment terrible ou Isabelle, s'etant echappee des mains des femmes qui veulent l'empechcr de se tuer, rit, en se donnant un coup de poignard, de l'inutilite de leurs efforts. Ce rire du desespoir est l'effet le plus difficile et le plus remarquable que le jeu dramatique puisse produire; il emeut bien plus que les larmes: cette amere ironie du malheur est son expression la plus dechirante. Qu'elle est terrible la souffrance du coeur, quand elle inspire une si barbare joie, quand elle donne, a l'aspect de son propre sang, le contentement feroce d'un sauvage ennemi qui se serait venge!" (Mme de Stael: Corinne, livre XVII, chapitre iv). Receipts: #181 11s. (147/0; 34/6; 0/5)

Event Comment: Receipts: #113 10s. 6d. (90/5/0; 23/3/0; 0/2/6)