Event Comment: Three Bro
thers of ye
Delavals play'd ye Eldest
Othello, ye next
Iago, ye next
Cassio--+Brabantio &
Lodovico Mr Pine Roderigo-Cap. Stevens and Wife Emelia $Mrs Quan did
Desdemona,
the performance was very decent & met with great applause
the Audience from ye Boxes to
the upper Gallery were fill'd with people of ye first rank & make a most brilliant appearance. & ye greatest Crowd at ye Doors I ever saw.
their Agreement for ye House was a receipt of one of
the Alfred Houses upon an Averidge.
they had all new cloaths, & very nicely ornamented with Diamonds (
Cross). [See eulogy and criticism in some detail concerning
the acting, by
John Hill,
Inspector No 3.] All Gentlemen and Ladies who intend going in coaches this evening to
Drury Lane Theatre, are desired to order
their coachmen to drive thro'
Covent Garden, and stop at
Bridges St. Door, and as soon as
they have set down
the company to drive off directly towards
the Strand.--Those who go in chairs, are requested to order
the men to
the New Door in
Russel St., and to prevent
the avenues being stopt up no person will be admitted to ei
ther passage without first showing
their tickets at
the outward door (
General Advertiser). Tickets Lost. If any person has found
three tickets (numbers forgot) for
the private play this night at Drury Lane, and will be so kind as to bring
them to
the Bar of
the Rainbow Coffee House,
Ironmonger Lane, shall receive 15s. for
the whole, or in proportion for one or two of
them (
General Advertiser). Tomorrow Morning at 8 o'clock will be published' (price 6d.) by
Thomas Carnan, at Mr
Newberry's, at
the Bible and Sun in
St Paul's Churchyard; An
Occasional Prologue and
Epilogue to
Othello, as it will this night be acted at
the theatre-Royal in Drury Lane, by Persons of distinction, for
their diversion. Written by
Christopher Smart, A.M., Fellow of
Pembroke Hall in
the University of
Cambridge. To be had at
the place above mentioned, and at
the pamphlet shops at
the Royal Exchange and
Charing Cross. This Prologue and Epilogue will be entered in
the Hall Book of
the Company of Stationers, and whoever presumes to pyrate
them, or any part of
them, will be persecuted as
the Law directs (
General Advertiser). [Both pieces by Christopher Smart, according to
the Daily Advertiser. See two exceedingly favorable critical comments and one derogatory reprinted in
the Gentleman's Magazine, March 1751 (pp. 119-22): "
The greatest part of
the play was much better performed than it ever was on any stage before. In
the whole,
there was a face of nature that no
theatrical piece, acted by common players ever came up to."
Macklin was Delaval's dramatic coach, according to one of
these articles.