Mrs. Yates as Lady Macbeth.
FOOTNOTES:
[48] Should be October 4.
[49] Delane was not at Covent Garden. He did not leave Drury Lane till next season.
[50] Dr. Doran has reversed the cast of these two plays. Garrick played Lothario and Iago; Barry, Horatio and Othello.
[51] This is a most extraordinary statement. It was acted nineteen times.
[52] He lived for nearly a year. "Merope" was produced April 1749: Hill died February 1750.
[53] It is a character named Arnold who joins the French for love of Marianne. Dr. Doran has misread a somewhat obscure sentence in Genest's description of the plot.
[54] 1731.
[55] Probably the "Mourning Bride"—(Zara by Mrs. Pritchard)—is meant. "Zara" does not seem to have been played.