ABSTRACT
The present Season is now above half over,* and what has been done?— Why, the Town has been entertained with a frequent Repetition of their old Plays and stale Farces; and one Farce, entitled the Fair Quaker of Deal, has been palm’d upon the Town as a reviv’d Comedy, and exhibited a greater Number of Nights than formerly better Plays, much better acted, were ever known to reign. As Bartholomew Fair has been some Years suppress’d the politic Manager contriv’d to introduce Drolls on the Stage at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. ‘Twas usual with the Masters of Droll Booths to get some Genius of a lower Class to supply ’em with Scenes, detach’d from our Plays, altered and adapted to the Taste of the holiday Audiences they were commonly perform’d to. This Hint the Manager has taken, and of this gallimaufry Kind was the Pastoral (as he call’d it) exhibited at Drury’s Theatre.
