Event Comment: "
The performance of last night boasted some additional impression, by
the fine imagination of [
Kemble's] starting at
the trumpet from
the prayer of penitence, and springing up
the Hero and
the King...[In Act V]
the scene with
Katharine was as sportive and as easy as possible...
Comus followed, vice
the Critic, obliged to be postponed from [
the] indisposition of
Parsons (MS annotation on
Kemble playbill)]. Some disapprobation attended
the drawing up
the curtain.
Palmer explained, and
then, without 'wiping his lips since he spoke last' began "
The Star that bids
the Shepherd fold" (
Oracle, 1 Nov.). Receipts: #223 5s. 6d. (180.8.6; 41.3.0; 1.14.0)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth
Afterpiece Title: Comus
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne