Event Comment: For
the House. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Sometime after May, and during 1770 was published
Paul Hiffernan's
Dramatic Genius in Five Books, dedicated to
Garrick (with a 2nd edn., 1772). Book I, delineates a plan for a permanent Temple to be erected to
the memory of
Shakespeare, in classical taste; Book II, details
the invention of
the drama, its rise to perfection, and gives a "candid disquisition of
the rules laid down by
the critics"; Book III, a treatise on
the art of acting; Book IV, requisites for dramatic genius, in composition, and in acting; Book V, an essay on Architecture, Painting and
the o
ther arts as
they relate to
theatrical representation. Contains flattering comments on
theatrical managers.