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Actors of female characters before the Restoration
Suppression of stage-plays
State of the theatre during the Civil Wars
Destouches the dramatist, and Bonaparte..
Massinger
"The hour before Marriage,"
Theatrical costume..
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Mrs. Foote
Connelly, the actor
"School for Scandal,"
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Ben Jonson, and the Spanish tragedy
Tragical accident at the old Theatre in the Haymarket
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The origina
aiday's
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The bottle Conjuror
Garrick and Foote
Modest merit
Performance at the Arctic Theatre
The actors
George Frederick Cooke, and Mathews
Celebrated performers of Sir John Falstaff
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Plagiarism in the "Heir at Law,"
Miss Hawkins' account of Foote's excursion to Strat-
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women
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George Steevens, Mrs. Siddons, and Miss Kemble ..
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