All's Well That Ends Well (Vol. 26) | Harold Child (essay date 1929)
Harold Child (essay date 1929)
SOURCE: "The Stage-History of All's Well That Ends Well," in All's Well That Ends Well, Cambridge at the University Press, 1929, pp. 187-89.
The stage-history of this comedy is brief and inglorious. There is no record of its performance (or of any performance of Love's Labour's Won) before the closing of the theatres; and although it appears in the list (of January, 1669) of plays allotted to Killigrew for the King's Company … , he seems to have made no use of it. The first known performance was at Goodman's Fields Theatre on March 7, 1741, seven months before 'a Gentleman (who never appeared on any Stage),' in other words David Garrick, made theatrical history by appearing on those same boards as King Richard III. The play was given for the benefit of Mrs Giffard, the manager's wife, who acted Helena, her husband taking Bertram, with Peterson as Parolles and Miss Hippisley as Diana. The novelty was...
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