This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...revived the playhouse in its proper state at the Cock-pit in Drury-lane. Foremost in the list of his performers ranked Betterton and Kynaston, who were soon after invited to place themselves under a more promising management, when the crown patents for acting were once more regularly issued, and the performers formally ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...revived the playhouse in its proper state at the Cock-pit in Drury-lane. Foremost in the list of his performers ranked Betterton and Kynaston, who were soon after invited to place themselves under a more promising management, when the crown patents for acting were once more regularly issued, and the performers formally sworn in as the king's servants. Two companies were thus established, the one styled the king's, which removed from the Red Bull to the Tennis Court, near Clare-market; and the other distinguished as the Duke of York's, which from the Cock-pit fixed itself in a new house in Lincoln's Inn Fields during the year 1662. Killigrew, the notorious caterer for the folly and vices of his sovereign, had the former licence, and Sir William Davenant, by virtue of an old promise, the latter; Betterton's talents in these changes became the knight's property. The performances in Lincoln's Inn Fields recommenced with Davenant's comedy, in two parts, of the " Siege of Rhodes," in which Betterton acquitted himself with so much talent and effect, that he grew rapidly in public favour, and was especially noticed by the king. Such was the progress of his reputation, that he was soon after thought worthy of being selected by Charles as the fittest person to visit Paris, and after a judicious view of the French stage, to model such improvements on our own boards as the taste of the reign seemed to require. In 1670 he married Mrs. Saunderson, whom he had long known as a sister actress, and with whom he is described as having lived until he died with tender fidelity, and reciprocal affection. In the following year, just before a new theatre, built upon a plan of greater magnificence, in Dorset-gardens, Salisbury-court, was finished, Davenant died, and Bette...
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