LONDON THEATRE. A COLLECTION OF THE Most celebrated Dramatic Pieces. CORRECTLY GIVEN, FROM COPIES USED IN THE THEATRES, FAIR PENITENT. A Tragedy. BY N. ROWE, ESQ. CORRECTLY GIVEN, FROM COPIES USED IN THE THEATRES, BY THOMAS DIBDIN, Author of several Dramatic Pieces: and Printed at the Chiswick Press, FOR WHITTINGHAM AND ARLISS, PATERNOSTER THE FAIR PENITENT, PRODUCED at the Lincoln's-inn Fields Theatre in 1703, is styled by Doctor Johnson one of the most pleasing tragedies on the stage. That it should have maintained its place in public favour for more than a century, and that century celebrated for the variation of its taste, is a sufficient corroboration of the Doctor's opinion. Although the diction is truly described by a late author to be "exquisitely harmonious," the original copy teemed with exceptionable exuberances, which are here expunged. |