BETTERTON, BOOTH, WILKS, CIBBER, GARRICK, BARRY, MOSSOP, SHERIDAN, FOOTE
QUIN, AND MOST OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES;

Together with his

Valuable Obfervations on the Drama, on the Science of Acting,
and on various other Subjects:

THE WHOLE FORMING

A COMPREHENSIVE BUT SUCCINCT

HISTORY OF THE STAGE;

Which includes a Period of One Hundred Years.

BY JAMES THOMAS KIRKMAN,

OF THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF LINCOLN'S INN.

1802

ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE,

AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS;
THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS AND THEIR ENTRANCES,
AND ONE MAN IN HIS TIME PLAYS MANY PARTS-
HIS ACTS BEING SEVEN AGES.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

Shakespeare.

PRINTED FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO. TEMPLE OF THE MUSES,

FINSBURY SQUARE.

1799.

Cntered at Stationers' Hall.