ABSTRACT
First published in The Examiner, IV, 24 March 1811, pp. 186–8. Reprinted in Hunt, Dramatic, pp. 45–9. For other comments by Hunt on Colman, see headnote above, p. 64. On the rage for equestrian plays, see also The Examiner, IV, 21 July 1811, pp. 470–1 and below, pp. 176–7; and 28 July 1811, pp. 485–6; A. H. Saxon, Enter Foot and Horse; A History of Hippodrama in England and France (New Haven: Yale UP, 1968); Jane Moody, Illegitimate theatre in London, 1770–1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000); and Jeffrey N. Cox and Michael Gamer (eds), The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama (Peterborough, Canada: Broadview Press, 2003).
