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5iSTHE FREEMASONS’ MAGAZINE,STRICTURESonPUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.Noye:was rTHEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.EMBER 5, a Damatic Sketch, called “ Guy Fawkes,’* represented, of which the following were theDRAMATIS PERSONS.Captain Tryfor't, ----- Mr. Barrymore ;JItijor Knapsack, - - - - - Mr. Suett;Pickpin, - -- -- -- - Mr. Wewitzeb;Irish Chairman, ----- Mr. Parsons;Device, - -- -- -- - Mr. Benson;Guzzle, - - - - - - - - Mr. Bannister, Jun#Mrs. Knapsack, - - - - - Mrs. Hopkins;Tunny Fittull, ------ Mrs. Gibbs.The plot of Guy Fawkes is extremely simple and easily discovered. As a tribute of loyalty to the spirit of the times, it merits commendation. The incidents have very little claim to novelty; the return of the letter is hacknied and trite, and was last made use of in The Irishman hi London. The trick of Guy Fawkes is entirely pantomi-mical, and was originally played off in the popular Pantomime of Omai. The attempt to burn the representative of Guy Fawkes is new; and the boxing-match may certainty be deemed a strikingim* provement of the original idea.The dialogue of this dramatic sketch, however, bespeaks the hand of a master; and the loyal sentiments entrusted to Major Knapsack were highly relished by the audience, particularly where he defends his whim for keeping Red Letter Days, by asserting that Loyalty is the whim of the whole Nation.The Transparency, representing the Portrait of the King, was both brilliant and appropriate, and the piece was properly begun and ended with “ God Save the King!”
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London Free Mason Magazine
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Nov 01, 1793
Page 41
Full Page
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David L.
WI, USA 15 Jun 2017
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