KEAN’S BAJAZET, Etc.
This theatrical notice is proved to be Hazlitt’s by the passage (p. 276) beginning ‘Happy age, when the utmost stretch of a morning’s study,’ etc., which is repeated in the Lecture ‘On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar.’ See vol. VIII. p. 70. Rowe’s Tamerlane was first produced in 1702.
[274]. Miss Stephens’s reappearance in Polly. Cf. vol. VIII. pp. 193–5. [275]. ‘Full of sound,’ etc. Macbeth, Act V. Sc. 5. ‘A load to sink a navy.’ Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. Ambition as the hunger of noble minds. See Tamerlane, Act II. Sc. 2. [276]. The Country Girl. Produced originally in 1766, an adaptation by Garrick of The Country Wife of Wycherley. Cf. vol. VIII. p. 76. Mrs. Mardyn, Mrs. Alsop, and the actors here referred to are dealt with by Hazlitt in A View of the English Stage.