The Life of Mrs Abington Formerly Miss Barton Celebrated Comic Actress
The Life of Mrs Abington Formerly Miss Barton Celebrated Comic Actress
Macfall Haldane
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7th, 1769, " The Merchant of Venice. " Portia MRS. ABINGTON. March 28, Mrs. Abington's benefit, "The Hypocrite, fourteenth time, with " No Wit like a Woman's. " (Never acted. ) March 31st, " No Wit like a Woman's. " " Taken from George Dangiu of Moliere ; Modely, Palmer ; Vintage, Weston ; Symon, Moody; Mrs. Vintage, Mrs. Abington. Not printed. " In September, 1769, a Jubilee in honour of Shakespeare was celebrated at Stratford, under the direction of Garrick. Foote, either from envy of Garrick...' s taking the lead in this business, or from thinking that he conducted it with too much vanity and self -ostentation, looked with a jealous eye upon the whole, and hence took every little occasion, in squibs, sarcasms, and bon-mots, to arraign the projector's taste and management. This conduct, however, passed off with a laugh on both sides, till the winter following; when, finding that Garrick meant to convert his Jubilee into an object of profit, by bringing out a representation of it on the stage, Foote' s spleen could be restrained no longer he played off all his powers of ridicule 011 every part of the subject, both in company and in the public papers particularly on the ode on erecting a statue to Shakespeare, in which he pointed out some errors and inaccuracies with such force of humour, as gained the greatest part of the laughter on his side.
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