Event Comment: [Written by
Shakespear. With new Scenes
and Cloaths. At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction the Pit
and Boxes will be put together at 3s. Boxes on the Stage 4s. Gallery 1s. [The Prologue is in
The Comedian, No. VII, October 1732, with a long essay on the major theatres of the present season.]
Daily Advertiser, 4 Oct.: A very splendid
and crowded Audience...testify'd their Approbation both of the Decorations
and Performance. The principal Embellishments are as follows: On a large Oval over the Pit is represented the Figure of
His Majesty, attended by Peace, Liberty,
and Justice, trampling Tyranny
and Oppression under his Feet; round it are the Heads of
Shakespear,
Dryden,
Congreve,
and Betterton. On the Coving on the Left H
and is painted the Scene of
Cato pointing at the dead Body of his Son
Marcus; in the Middle, that of
Julius Caesar stabb'd in the Senate-House;
and on the Right, that of
Marc Anthony and Octavia, where the Children are introduc'd in
All for Love. On the Sounding-Board over the Stage is an h
andsome Piece of Painting of
Apollo and the
Nine Muses. [See also
Daily Post, 4 Oct.
and Gentleman's Magazine, II (October 1732), 1028.