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shionable Theatre
a lease for 21 years at the rent of
per annum. Notwithstanding that in
addition to his own valuable services IKsecured
those of the most talented
actors of the clay, he failed to make
the enterprise pay, and by the year
1754 Sheridan, who " had spent con-
siderable sums of money in the pur- ^ > t, S . Q ,
chase of a wardrobe, or wardrobes,
scenes, machinery, ul:ri.-iis, and decorations/'
found himsi-lf and ihe theatre ^MENT
responsible to mortgagees to the extent
-of 2,000.
Shortly afterward- he
the management, and
retired from
relinquishing
IN UBLIX
acting as a profession, later became
manager o! Drury Lane Theativ.
On resigning this, Sheridan became S>
an itinerant lecturer on elocution and
literature, the financial proceeds of
which, combined with a pension of tit Celt CtJ,
200 a year allowed by George III.
(-aid by some to ba compensation for
damage to hi.s theatre during the riots.
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