E-text prepared by Louise Hope, Joseph Cooper, Alex Buie, The Type-In Addicts, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes illustrative images of portions of the original text. See 30584-h.htm or 30584-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30584/pg30584-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30584/30584-h.zip) Transcriber's note: The primary text was handwritten, probably by a professional copyist. All line-endings were regularized by added dashes of variable length; some "real" dashes are therefore conjectural. Instead of typographic variants such as italics or boldface, some words are distinguished by _underlining_ or #smaller writing#. Abbreviations such as "Mr." were written with superscripts as M^r.; they have been simplified for readability. Unless otherwise noted, all spelling, punctuation and capitalization--including I/J variation and comma/period errors--are as in the original. Errors and uncertainties are listed at the end of the e-text. The Augustan Reprint Society CHARLES MACKLIN _THE COVENT GARDEN_ _THEATRE,_ OR _Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir_ (1752) _INTRODUCTION_ by JEAN B. KERN [Decoration] Publication Number 116 WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY University of California, Los Angeles 1965 GENERAL EDITORS Earl R. Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ John Butt, _University of Edinburgh_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _Clark Memorial Library_ EDITORS' NOTE Although of considerable interest in itself, this hitherto unpublished manuscript play is reprinted in facsimile in response to requests by members of the Society for a manuscript facsimile of use in graduate seminars. INTRODUCTION