[108] When Rae played Hamlet in 1806, at the Haymarket, Kean was his Rosencrantz.—Doran MS.
[109] There is a cipher too many here. In the 2d edition the sum is given as £17,000. Barry Cornwall says, "Upwards of £20,000."
[110] The adaptation was by Wroughton.
[111] The name of the tragedy was "Ina."
[112] Barry Cornwall relates a precisely similar circumstance, to which Dr. Doran probably refers.
[113] Miss O'Neill played Juliet on the 6th October (corrected in 2d edition).
[114] Miss O'Neill (Lady Becher) died 29th October 1872, aged 80.
[115] After Miss O'Neill married Becher and left the stage, she affected not even to know at what time the play began, and once, when some one quoted a line from one of her popular parts, she pretended not to know from whence it came. So says Payne Collier, but I know she went to see Kate Terry's Juliet, and that she sent to her the praise of "one who had played Juliet."—Doran MS.
[116] I see no reason to suppose that it was not Wroughton's alteration that was performed this season also.
[117] He played Achmet and Paul for his benefit. He played Eustace de St. Pierre ("Surrender of Calais") for the first time during this season.