Event Comment: The Play of
Othello, which was performed last night at
Drury Lane theatre, by some gentlemen and ladies to
the most numerous and polite Audience that could be assembled, went off throughout with great approbation and applause (
General Advertiser). [See
A Satirical Dialogue between a Sea Captain and his friend in Town: Humble submitted to
the Gentlemen who deformed
the Play of O
thello on Th-rs-y M-
the 7th....To which is added a
Prologue and
Epilogue much more suitable to
the occasion than
their own. (
London [n.d.], BM 11,795, K 31, 8pp): @'Good manners oblig'd
them sometimes to applaud@Tho'
they little deserv'd it...'@
The author laments
the fact that
the expenditure (#1,500) was not put out to charitable purposes, ra
ther than for such entertainment.] T
his day is publish'd at 1s. 6d., beautifully printed,
Alfred, a Masque, acting at
the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, by Mr Mallet. Printed for
A. Miller, opposite
Catherine St in
the Strand, where may be had Alfred, a Masque, represented before
their Royal
Highnesses
the Prince and Princess of Wales at
Cliefden, on
the first of August 1740. Written by
Mr Thomson and
Mr Mallet