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of Clive, the 1745-1746 season (one poor in attendance
and new plays) at Drury Lane is noteworthy because of a reinstated
Macklin, a de-throned Fleetwood, a new manager (Lacy), a
well-balanced company soon to be augmented by player-manager
Garrick, prospects for a bright future--and a theatrical monopoly
stronger than ever.[23] In the latter regard Mrs. Clive's case is revealing
in that it gives a new emphasis to the epithet His Majesties'
Servants.[24]
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NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
[1] The Dramatic Congress (London, 1743). Throughout I use short
titles.
[2] Three major documents concerning this quarrel are published under
the title _Mr. Macklin's Reply to Mr. Garrick's Answer_ (London,
1743).
[3] Mrs. Clive's four afterpieces, with their allusions to her personality
and career, are equally revealing. I treat this subject in "An Edition of
the Afterpieces of Kitty Clive," Diss. Duquesne Univ. 1968, and "The
Textual Relationship and Biographical Significance of Two Petite
Pieces by Mrs. Catherine (Kitty) Clive," RECTR, 9 (May 1970), 51-58,
and "Kitty Clive as Dramatist," DUJ, N.S., 32 No. 2 (March 1971),
125-132.
[4] James Boswell, _Boswell's Life of Johnson_, ed. George Birkbeck
Hill, rev. L.F. Powell (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1950), IV, 243.
[5] Dramatic Miscellanies (London, 1785), III, 131, 376.
[6] Quoted by [John Genest], Some Account of the English Stage (Bath:
H.E. Carrington, 1832), V, 230.
[7] Memoirs of His Own Life (York, 1790), II, 257. See _Theatrical
Correspondence in Death. An Epistle from Mrs. Oldfield_ (London,
1743), p. 7.
[8] _The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq._, ed. William Ernest
Henley (New York: Croscup & Sterling Co., [1902]; reprinted Barnes
& Noble, 1967), X, 277-278.
[9] For a useful exposition of the 1733 and 1743 disputes in terms of
the licensing act see Watson Nicholson, The Struggle for a Free Stage
in London (Cambridge, Mass.: Archibald Constable & Co., 1906.).

[10] Percy Fitzgerald, _The Life of Mrs. Catherine Clive_ (London: A.
Reader, 1888), p. 24. P.J. Crean, "The Life and Times of Kitty Clive,"
Diss. Univ. of London, 1933, is, however, the authority on Clive's life.
I am indebted to Professor Crean.
[11] Quoted in Mary E. Knapp, Prologues and Epilogues of the
Eighteenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961), p. 69.
[12] Yet, with Fitzgerald (Life, p. 34), I believe that Fielding could
have helped Mrs. Clive ready her Case for the press. Certainly the
"correctness" of that printed text could not have been achieved by her
alone. Cf. Clive's MS letters, Appendix, "An Edition of the
Afterpieces."
[13] See Crean, "Life and Times," p. 215. A pertinent example of
actors' seeking redress is, of course, the revolt of 1694-1695, described
by John Downes, Roscius Anglicanus (London. 1708), pp. 43-44;
Augustan Reprint Society publication number 134 (Los Angeles, 1969),
with an Introduction by John Loftis, is a facsimile of the first edition.
[14] See Arthur H. Scouten, "Introduction," The London Stage
(Carbondale, III.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1961), Pt. 3, xcv,
cxlvii, and Dramatic Congress, p. 20.
[15] Cf. James Ralph, The Case of our Present Theatrical Disputes
(London, 1743), pp. 3, 48.
[16] _The Case Between the Managers of the Two Theatres, and their
Principal Actors_ (London, 1743, misdated 1713), p. 20. Cf. An
Impartial Examen (London, 1744), pp. 10-11, 21-22. See also the three
Queries pamphlets: _Queries to be Answered by the Manager of
Drury-Lane_ (London, 1743); Queries upon Queries (London, 1743); A
Full Answer to Queries upon Queries (London, 1743).
[17] (London, 1744), pp. 15-16.
[18] Dramatic Congress, p. 22. Thomas Davies, Memoirs of the Life of
David Garrick, 3rd Ed. (London, 1781), I, 90, says of Rich: he "seems
to have imbibed, from his very early years, a dislike of the people with
whom he was obliged to live and converse."
[19] See Clive's afterpiece The Faithful Irish Woman in "An Edition of
the Afterpieces."
[20] See _Mr. Macklin's Reply to Mr. Garrick's Answer_, pp. 18, 29-30,
and An Impartial Examen, pp. 10-11.
[21] Nicholson, Struggle for a Free Stage, p. 124; see, too, pp. 83-86.

[22] Crean, "Life and Times," p. 254 n. 1, points out that on the very
day of this benefit (2 Nov.) a second notice of Mrs. Clive's Case
appeared.
[23] See Nicholson's concluding chapter. For other effects of the
licensing act see Scouten, London Stage, cxlvii, and Ralph, Case of the
Present Theatrical Disputes, pp. 22, 43.
[24] Since the pamphlets cited here are scarce, some rare, perhaps the
following list of locations will prove helpful. Full titles and partial
bibliographical information are available in Robert W. Lowe, A
Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature (London: J.C.
Nimmo, 1888), p. 95.
Dramatic Congress, Univ. Chicago, Austrian Coll., PR 3346. C3D7
1743.
_Mr. Macklin's Reply_, Newberry Library, V1845. 54.
Theatrical Correspondence in Death, Harvard, Thr 417. 43. 12.
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