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Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published (Volume 1) - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1830. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. A small apology for writing on.--The different state of the two companies.--Wilks invited over from Dublin.--Estcourt, from the same stage, the winter following.--Mrs Oldfield's first admission to the theatre royal.--Her character.--The great theatre in the Haymarket built for Betterton's company.--It answers not their expectation.-- Some observations upon it.--A theatrical state secret. I Now begin to doubt that the gaieti du cceur in which I first undertook this work, may have drawn me into a more laborious amusement than I shall know how to away with; for though I cannot say I have yet jaded my vanity, it is not impossible but by this time the most candid of my readers may want a little breath; especially when they consider that all this load I have heaped upon their patience, contains but seven years of the forty three I passed upon the stage, the history of which period I have enjoined myself to transmit to the judgment (or oblivion) of posterity. However, even my dulness will find somebody to do it right. If my reader is an ill-natured one, he will be as much pleased to find me a dunce in my old age, as possibly he may have been to prove me a brisk blockhead in my youth; but if he has no gall to gratify, and would (for his simple amusement) as well know how the playhouses went on forty years ago, as how they do now, I will honestly tell him the rest of my story as well as I can. Lest therefore the frequent digressions that have broke in upon it may have entangled his memory, I must beg leave just to throw together the heads of what I have already given him, that he may again recover the clue of my discourse. Let him then remember, from the yearl660 to 1684, the various fortune of the (then) king's and duke's two famous companies; their being re...
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