Event Comment: [Written by
Shakespear. With new Scenes and Cloaths. At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction the Pit and Boxes will be put together at 3s. Boxes on the Stage 4s. Gallery 1s. [The Prologue is in
The Comedian, No. VII, October 1732, with a long essay on the major theatres of the present season.]
Daily Advertiser, 4 Oct.: A very splendid and crowded Audience...testify'd
their Approbation both of the Decorations and Performance. The principal Embellishments are as follows: On a large Oval over the Pit is represented the Figure of
His Majesty, attended by Peace, Liberty, and Justice, trampling Tyranny and Oppression under his Feet; round it are the Heads of
Shakespear,
Dryden,
Congreve, and
Betterton. On the Coving on the Left Hand is painted the Scene of
Cato pointing at the dead Body of his Son
Marcus; in the Middle, that of
Julius Caesar stabb'd in the Senate-House; and on the Right, that of
Marc Anthony and
Octavia, where the Children are introduc'd in
All for Love. On the Sounding-Board over the Stage is an handsome Piece of Painting of
Apollo and the
Nine Muses. [See also
Daily Post, 4 Oct. and
Gentleman's Magazine, II (October 1732), 1028.