CONSISTING O F

CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS

ON SEVERAL

PLAYS OF SHAKSPEARE:

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REVIEW OF HIS PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS,
AND THOSE OF VARIOUS EMINENT WRITERS,

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REPRESENTID

MR. GARRICK,

AND OTHER CELEBRATED COMEDIANS.

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ANECDOTES OF DRAMATIC POETS, ACTORS, &C.
BY THOMAS DAVIES,

AUTHOR of MEMOIRS of the LIFE of

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MISCELLANIE S.

All's well that ends well.

CHAPTER XXI.

Unpromifing fable to All's well that ends well.Shakspeare's creative power.-Revival of this comedy in 1741.Sickness of Milward.-Mrs. Woffington. Death of Milward.-His character. -Superftition of the actors.-Parolles-Macklin and The. Cibber.-Chapman and Berry commended. All's well that ends well revived by Garrick.-Diftribution of the parts.--Abuse of wardship.-Fafcinating power of certain worthlefs characters-Lully, Swift, and Lord Rivers. Word Christendom.-Helen's defcription of Parolles.-Definition of clown, or fool.-His occupation.-Defcription from Fobnfon and Steevens. -B. Fonfon and Fletcher.Shakspeare's fuperior knowledge of nature and the qualities of bis auditors.-Fonfon not averfe to mirth in tragedy.His Sejanus and Catiline.-Condition of phyficians in England, France, and Germany.-Hele delicacy. VOL. II.

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