TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. The oe ligature has been replaced by 'oe' or 'OE'. Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. More detail can be found at the end of the book. NOTE.--_Three Hundred copies of this Edition printed on fine deckle-edge Royal 8vo paper. The fifty Portraits are given in duplicate, one on Japanese and the other on plate paper, as India proofs._ _Each of these copies is numbered._ _No._ ........ "Their Majesties' Servants" DR. DORAN, F.S.A. VOLUME THE SECOND Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON [Illustration:(Frontispiece, Garrick and his Wife)] "_THEIR MAJESTIES' SERVANTS_" ANNALS OF THE ENGLISH STAGE FROM THOMAS BETTERTON TO EDMUND KEAN BY DR. DORAN, F.S.A. _EDITED AND REVISED BY ROBERT W. LOWE_ With Fifty Copperplate Portraits and Eighty Wood Engravings _IN THREE VOLUMES_ VOLUME THE SECOND LONDON JOHN C. NIMMO 14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND MDCCCLXXXVIII CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE MRS. OLDFIELD 1 CHAPTER II. FROM THE DEATH OF ANNE OLDFIELD TO THAT OF WILKS 21 CHAPTER III. ROBERT WILKS 32 CHAPTER IV. ENTER GARRICK 49 CHAPTER V. GARRICK, QUIN, MRS. PORTER 71 CHAPTER VI. RIVALRY; AND ENTER, SPRANGER BARRY 86 CHAPTER VII. THE OLD DUBLIN THEATRE 99 CHAPTER VIII. GARRICK AND QUIN; GARRICK AND BARRY 108 CHAPTER IX. THE AUDIENCES OF 1700-1750 127 CHAPTER X. EXIT, JAMES QUIN 160 CHAPTER XI. ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND 181 CHAPTER XII. MARGARET WOFFINGTON 198 CHAPTER XIII. COLLEY CIBBER 213 CHAPTER XIV. ENGLAND AND IRELAND 240 CHAPTER XV. RYAN, RICH, O'BRIEN 253 CHAPTER XVI. SUSANNA MARIA CIBBER 268 CHAPTER XVII. REAPPEARANCE OF SPRANGER BARRY--RETIREMENT OF MRS. PRITCHARD 277 CHAPTER XVIII. THE LAST YEARS OF GARRICK AND BARRY 290 CHAPTER XIX. DAVID GARRICK 304 CHAPTER XX. SPRANGER AND ANNE BARRY 336 CHAPTER XXI.