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The Gamester: A Century of Performances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Anthony Amberg
Anthony Amberg
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English Literature at the Roosevelt University, Chicago.
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Extract

Between its first revival in 1771 and its last in 1871, The Gamester was performed more frequently on the London stage than any other Restoration or eighteenth-century tragedy. Most of these many performances, moreover, were given by Britain's finest actors and actresses. It should not be surprising, then, that the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century critics who witnessed these many fine performances thought, on the whole, highly of the acted play. Nor should it be surprising that the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century audiences – who also witnessed the performances of these many excellent actors and actresses – received The Gamester ‘with such genuine applause’.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , Summer 1990 , pp. 105 - 125
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1990

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