RICHARD III.
PAGE [298]. the character in which Garrick came out. David Garrick (1717–1779) appeared, October 19, 1741, at the theatre in Goodman’s Fields. the second character in which Mr. Kean appeared. Edmund Kean (1787–1833) appeared at Drury Lane as Shylock, January 26, 1814, on February 1st as Shylock, on February 12th as Gloster in Richard III. See Some Account of the English Stage, Genest, vol. viii. pp. 407–408, 1832. See also Hazlitt’s A View of the English Stage. But I was born, Act I. 3. [299]. Cooke. George Frederick Cooke (1756–1811) acted Richard III. at Covent Garden on September 20, 1809. See Genest’s Some Account of the English Stage, viii. p. 178. [300]. Sir Giles Overreach, in Massinger’s A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1620–33). For Hazlitt’s criticism of Kean’s acting in this and the other characters referred to in the same paragraph see his A View of the English Stage. Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. A play (1696) by Thomas Southerne (1660/1–1746) founded on a novel of Aphra Behn’s (1640–1689). Cibber. See note to p. 157. [301]. bustle in, Act I. 1. they do me wrong, Act I. 3 [speak fair]. I beseech your graces, Act I. 1. [302]. Stay, yet look, Act IV. 1 [rude, ragged nurse]. Dighton and Forrest, Act IV. 3.