Cymbeline - eTheses Repository - University of Birmingham

outside was very great. Lord Hertford
dropped one of the candles as he was
lighting him in, and made a great confusion
in the box. He sat in Lady
Bessborough's box, which was fitted up
for him. He goes to Covent Garden
tonight. A few people called out "The
Queen" but very few. A man in the
gallery called out, "Where's your wife,
George?"
At Cov. Garden when it was announced that
he was going to the play they hissed and made
a great noise, and when Cod save the King was
called for they made them sing God save the
Queen. (I have scratched out the above
because it is not true).®
78.
whether or not the Covent Garden incident crossed out by
Greville was true, a similar occurrence marred a performance
of Henry IV. Part 2 at Govent Gar-den on June 25, 1821:
At the fall of the curtain, 'God Save the
King 1 v/as called for, and sung on the stage
by all the performers, though not without
interruption, a portion of the audience
substituting the name o" the ueen.
(TJnthoven file, 25 June, 1821: unidentified
clipping)
ii. Hacready's next appearances, in Cyrobeline were at Covent
Garden on June 19 and June 24, 1822, when he v/as cast as
Posthumus once more. He played the part at Prury Lane on
May 10, 1826, on May 23, 1C28, and on October 17, 1833.
The first of these performances, June 19, 1822, was for
the benefit of Miss M. Tree, whose line in characters may be
illustrated by reference to a review of her performance in
Maid Marian; or, the Huntress of Arlingford (Covent Garden,
Dec 3, 1822) -
The character of Maid Parian, fr^nk, blithe
and merry, yet gentle, affectionate, and
gracefully feminine, was finely conceived
and effectively embodied by Mien Tree...9