However incredible the following story may appear, it stands on the very respectable authority of Arthur Murphy[R] and David Erskine Baker[S]. A tragedy, called Zingis, written by Alexander Dow, was so totally unintelligible that the audience were continually asking each other—What is it about? What is it about?—That such nonsense should be written is not so very marvellous, as that the miserable farrago should have had a run of nine nights, which has been frequently denied to works of first rate merit.
FOOTNOTES:
[L] Baker's Play-house Companion, vol. 1.
[M] Idem, 426.
[N] Baker's Play-house Companion, vol. 1. 312.
[O] Idem, 292.
[P] Baker's Play-house Companion, vol 1. p. 250.
[Q] Murphy's life of Garrick, Dublin Edition, p 125.
[R] Idem, page 294.
[S] Play-house Companion, Vol. 2. p. 417.