Dramatic alterations urged for Lear at Drury Lane
The General Evening Post discusses needed changes to Garrick's Lear at Drury Lane. It argues for trimming flagitious villains like the Bastard and questions stage conventions, urging prudence in depicting Gloucester’s fall while preserving poignant moments. It also notes convocation queries from Oxford and calls for a public notice.
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Py Hough
Lear
Drury-lane
Tate
Cordelia
Edgar
Gloster
Dover
TZ Vice-Chandlor
Oxford
Sapien
V. C
Petition Against Tythes In Kind Sparks Public Meeting Call
A letter urges readers to support a petition to Parliament to overturn the practice of paying tythes in kind. It argues for reason and liberty, notes clergy distress and farmer hardship, and warns that current measures threaten agriculture and national prosperity. Public patronage is asked for in the hopes of a fair cause.
House Discusses East India Affairs and Price Provisions
Lord North moves to appoint a committee on East India Company matters and the Commons will later consider high provisions prices. Reports note royal family reconciliations, Navy readiness, and the Chancellor's firm stance against opposition. Covent Garden debuts a new Murphy tragedy and a Goldsmith comedy nears rehearsal with positive early buzz.
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Lord North
House of Commons
East India Company
St. James’s
Gloucester
Cumberland
Laudale
Company
Lord Sandwich
Navy
Queen’s Palace
Admiralty
Lord Bellomont
St. James's
Lord Camden
Coventgarden Theatre
Murphy
Dr. Goldmith
Dockyard fire and naval pay report from Chatham and Oxford notices
Extracts describe a Sunday interment, guards delivering money for dockyard artificers, a ship paid off at port, and a fire extinguished by workers. Oxford prizes and degrees are announced with Latin verses and an essay. a telescope gift to Oxford observes the new observatory. East-India House posts February 1774 notices on a loan by ballot and general court timings for Parliament loan discussions.
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Montreal
Teddy
Inwood
Oxford
Lord North
Earl of Litchfel Fidros
Valerius Flaccus
Duke‘of Marlborough
University of Oxford
Fleet
Graves
Griel College
Honey
Windsor
Exeter College
East-India House
The
United Company
England
East-Indies
Leadenhall - Strebt
Mont. D’anville
Samuel Dunn
Danville
Robert
Tho. Kitchen
R. Layer
Kleet-freet
T. Jefferys
Charing-cross
Theatrical Entertainments and Market Prices
The notice lists yesterday and tonight selections at Covent Garden and other venues including The Maid of the Mill The Provoked Wife The Beggar's Opera and Alzuma with various acts. It also provides prices for Wheat Barley Rye Oats Flour and hogs seeds and several bank stock quotations and annuity notes.
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Dausy-Lanez
Irih
Covent-Garden
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