Cymbeline - eTheses Repository - University of Birmingham

Garden Theatre In the British Museum. 10 According to
this account-book, Miaa Tree's benefit realized £295.14.0,
of which she received £230.0.0. The performance on June
24 realized £177.5.0. A sample of takings from the same
season gives us some idea of the status of Cymbeline in
the box office:
Oct. 1. (1st night of season: Twelfth £314. 6.0
ijight and The Miller and His'"i-Ien)
Oct. 2. (Speed the Plough!£190.19.6
Oct ' 4. (The Two Gentlemen of Verona) £194. 8.0
Oct. 5. (Henry VIII and The Forty £239.16.6
Thieves)
Oct. 7. (Hamlet) £353. 9.0
Oct.17. (Venice Preserved: as Belvidera £ 88.17.0
a Miss Lacy from Dublin, her
second appearance in London)
uov.1t;. (aomeo and Juliet) ^319.15.6
Dec.26. (Harlequin and the Ogress and £"326.18.5
Souglas j
Jan. 8. (H-arlequin and the Ogress and £485. 9.0
The School for Scandal)
Of these performances, the last had a remarkably good cast:
Farren as Peter Teazle, Charles Kenible as Charles Surface,
Miss Foote as Maria, and Kacready as Joseph Surface.
81.
iii. In 1823, there wa;: a possibility of I acready'e appearing
with ''cmund Loan. flacready exchanged letters with
" :iliston, whom he assured "If U.Y feelings are said to be
var tfi, they are equally so in friendly as in hostile bearings"
(16 September, U'2'; - and he discussed the characters
which could be played. Ke would not undertake Iat o and
lachirao unless Keon gave "a perfectly satisfactory equivalent"
in anothor play, aiT-"1 he mifegested, though not very
seriously, that Lean might alternate- Hacbetb ard JTacduff
with him. Nothing came of thesf- negotiations, and '"acready's
next appearance in the role of Posthunus was in an unremarkable
performance at Drury Lane on nay 10, 1826. The