28 January 1700

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Theatre: Lincoln's Inn Fields
Theatrical Season: 1699-1700
Volume: 1
Comments: Villiers Bathurst to Arthur Charlett, 28 Jan. 1699@1700: The Wits of all qualities have lately entertained themselves with a reviv 6: went to ye play. I staid there a quarter of an hour (Huntington MS St 26). The Wits of all qualities have lately entertained themselves with a revived humour of Sir John Falstaff in Henry the Fourth, which has drawn all the town, more than any new play that has bin produced of late; which shews that Shakespeare's wit will always last: and the criticks allow that Mr Betterton has hitt the humour of Falstaff better than any that have aimed at it before (G. Thorn-Drury, More Seventeenth Century Allusions to Shakespeare, [London, 1924], p. 48)

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    *p=?lif Comment. *c=?lif $Villiers Bathurst= to $Arthur Charlett=, 28 Jan. 1699@1700: The Wits of all qualities have lately entertained themselves with a revived humour of <i>Sir John Falstaff</i>r in <i>Henry the Fourth</i>, which has drawn all the town, more than any new play that has bin produced of late; which shews that $Shakespeare='s wit will always last: and the criticks allow that $Mr Betterton= has hitt the humour of Falstaff better than any that have aimed at it before ($G. Thorn-Drury=, <i>More Seventeenth Century Allusions to Shakespeare</i>, [<i>London</i>, 1924], p. 48).

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    *p1700 01 28 lif Comment.*c1700 01 28 lif $Villiers Bathurst= to $Arthur Charlett=, 28 Jan. 1699@1700: The Wits of all qualities have lately entertained themselves with a reviv 6: went to ye play. I staid there a quarter of an hour (<i>Huntington MS</i> St 26). The Wits of all qualities have lately entertained themselves with a revived humour of <i>Sir John Falstaff</i>r in <i>Henry the Fourth</i>, which has drawn all the town, more than any new play that has bin produced of late; which shews that $Shakespeare='s wit will always last: and the criticks allow that $Mr Betterton= has hitt the humour of Falstaff better than any that have aimed at it before ($G. Thorn-Drury=, <i>More Seventeenth Century Allusions to Shakespeare</i>, [<i>London</i>, 1924], p. 48).

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    Event: 2294 | 17000128 | lif | $Villiers Bathurst= to $Arthur Charlett=, 28 Jan. 1699@1700: The Wits of all qualities have lately entertained themselves with a reviv 6: went to ye play. I staid there a quarter of an hour (<i>Huntington MS</i> St 26). The Wits of all qualities have lately entertained themselves with a revived humour of <i>Sir John Falstaff</i> in <i>Henry the Fourth</i>, which has drawn all the town, more than any new play that has bin produced of late; which shews that $Shakespeare='s wit will always last: and the criticks allow that $Mr Betterton= has hitt the humour of Falstaff better than any that have aimed at it before ($G. Thorn-Drury=, <i>More Seventeenth Century Allusions to Shakespeare</i>, [<i>London</i>, 1924], p. 48)

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