THE WHOLE FORMING A HISTORY OF THE STAGE, WHICH INCLUDES A Period of THIRTY-SIX YEARS. By THOMAS DAVIES. Quem populus Romanus meliorem virum quam Cicero pro Q Rofcio Comodo. A NEW EDITION. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed for the AUTHOR, and fold at his Shop in Great M. DCC. LXXX, ΤΟ Richard Brinfley Sheridan, Esq. SIR, IN N the following fheets I have endeavoured to do justice, as far as my abilities would permit, to the memory of your predeceffor, in the management of the stage; a man univerfally acknowledged to have been fuperior to all competition in his profeffion as an actor, and esteemed in his private life a fhining ornament of fociety. |