SEASON OF
i?64-'765
^he 479 performances this season were marked by no violent
outbursts. No financial records seem to be extant for any
of the theatres, nor do diarists’ accounts appear. But this
^ :tk season was published The Companion to the Playhouse ; or, An
torical Account of All the Dramatic Writers and their Works that have
are<* tn Great Britain and Ireland to the Tear 1764 (see 1 January 1765).
^ XVas the beginning, in two volumes, of what grew into the Riographia
d allCa- Dedicated to Garrick, who was still abroad until 25 April, it
^ <>ted eleven and one-half columns of commentary to him. A publication,
^ ,.evcr’ by John Witherspoon, president of Princeton, Essays on Important
Cts intended to Establish the Doctrine of Salvation by Grace , contained in
k . nie 1J> a “Serious Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Stage,”
° an attempt to show that contributing to the support of a Public
*eatre
18 inconsistent with the character of a Christian.
]1a|_. '10|b patent theatres vied with one another to “dress characters in the
j tS the time” as in Richard III , Rule a Wife, both Parts of Henry IP, and
his ^°re’ ''I further effort at historical accuracy in costuming. Mozart and
in utCr P^tfbrmed in a benefit concert for themselves at the Hay market,
p0s- . lc 1 they played “all the overtures from their own astonishing com¬
ics
°f t\'l0nS" a8cs eight and twelve they were still billed as “Prodigi
“nd v/tUrC" b)rury Lane on 30 October performed, of all things, She Woud
L(le °*d Not for the particular entertainment and “Desire” of Chukatah,
his 1 ,an^her of the Settico, a great warrior of the Cherokee Nation. For
tl1(, y ’t the afterpiece was The Witches, concluding with the landing of
it _ lur°kees in America. The Opera House announced in late March that
be doubly illuminated for those in the upper boxes and upper
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