CONSISTING OF

CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS

ON SEVERAL

PLAYS OF SHAKSPEARE:

WITH

A REVIEW OF HIS PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, AND
THOSE OF VARIOUS EMINENT WRITERS,

WITH ANECDotes of dramATIC POETS, ACTORS, &c.

Printed for the AUTHOR, and fold at his Shop, in

GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

M.DCC.LXXXIII.

DRAMATIC

MISCELLANIE S.

All's well that ends well.

CHAPTER

XXI.

Unpromifing fable to All's well that ends

well. Shakspeare's creative power.

Re

Sickness of

vival of this comedy in 1741.
Milward. Mrs. Woffington. - Death of
Milward. His character.-Superftition of
Parolles.- Macklin and The.

the actors.

Cibber. Chapman and Berry commended. All's well that ends well revived by Garrick. Diftribution of the parts.— AFafcinating power of

bufe of wardship.

certain worthless characters. Lully, Swift, and Lord Rivers.-Word Christen