Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire.
King of Denmark. Richard-
Mr Garrick (
Cross Diary). For
the King of
Denmark.--Richard by Mr Garrick, for
the first time
these six years-Beyond discription fine, -his voice clear to
the last (
Hopkins Diary). No money taken at stage door. None returned after curtain is up.
The doors (by particular desire) will be opened at half an Hour after Five. To Begin at Seven.
Neville MS Diary: Hearing about 7 o'clock that Garrick did
Richard III, one of his very capital characters which he has not done
these 7 or 8 years, resolved (if I could get in to see him) to bear
the abhorred sight of that woman-like painted puppy,
the King of
Denmark. After one unsuccessful attempt got into
the Pit with
the greatest difficulty after
the third act. Garrick is inimitably great in Richard & very different from
the o
ther Richards I have seen; his expression of
the dying agony of that wretch is beyond description. Some actors speak with as strong & loud voice in that scene as if
they had received no wound & were not dying. One
Lloyd, who waits on Garrick sometimes, observed that he himself says he never acted better in his life, modestly observing that something must be allowed to
the improvement of his judgment. During
the dance (for
there was no farce) I was within a yard of
the Danish tyrant