Event Comment: Benefit for
Burton,
Miss Heard,
Miss Tidswell, &
Mrs Bramwell. [2nd piece: With alterations by
John Philip Kemble.] 3rd piece: Not acted these 6 years. "Of [
Wroughton's] comedy something favourably must be said. His personations are usually natural, easy,
and spirited; he is perhaps too locomotive: he cannot bear to st
and still...To this peculiar bustle of his motion may be attributed much of his success in
Sir John Restless [in
All in the Wrong]...For the same reason, no man can play
Ford with half the effect Wroughton does" (
Monthly Mirror, Mar. 1796, p. 304).
Morning Herald, 30 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Heard, No. 43,
Haymarket [others not listed]. Receipts: #337 6s. 6d. (30.13.0; 40.16.6; 3.4.6; tickets: 260.10.0; odd money: 2.2.6) (charge: #202 11s.)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Purse
Afterpiece Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd
Related Works
Related Work: The Gentle Shepherd Author(s): Cornelius Vandertop