SEASON OF
1744-1745
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improper management of Dru^y Lane^-ea^he
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increase of prices. Tlreatregoers protested, Fleetwood con-
:٧ed the higher prices, and a riot followed on 19 November. Fleetwood
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his patent for sale, and sold out to the bankers Green and Amber,
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James Lacy as manager. The date of the transfer is not known,
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the appearance of Mills in tlie newspaper advertisements for 18 December
b';d Macklin ,for 19 December means that the change must have taken place
y the seventeenth.
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adaption from
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Sht: :"ter season. Covent
akespeare. Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John, on 15 February, wliere-
p٠n Drury Lane revived the original play on the twentieth, witli Garrick
King John, and the two plays were pitted against each other on the same
'ghts for several performances,
was considerable activity in the minor theatres this season,
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some two hundred performances. The most
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at the little Haymarket, where
of Shakespearean play
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to tire theat
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of Romeo and Juliet unt.il the patent theatres required Sir
in a
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veil to enforce the Licensing Act and interdict the performances.
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of e Hallams at the New Wells in Goodman’s Fields assembled a full company
٥Cr fifty actors and dancers and produced at least a liundred performances,
;;;here was no opera this season. Handel made a desperate effort to
subscriptions for some oratorios and eke out a program in a pitiful attempt