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DRAMATIC MICELLANIES:

CONSISTING OF

CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS

ON SEVERAL

PLAYS OF SHAKSPEARE:

WITH

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

AS

REPRESENTED

By MR.

GARRICK,

OTHER CELEBRATED COMEDIANS.

AND

WITH ANECDOTES OF DRAMATIC POETS, ACTORS, &c.

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Printed for the AUTHOR, and fold at his Shop, in
GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN.

M.DCC.LXXXIV.

DRAMATIC

MISCELLANIE S.

Hamlet.

CHAPTER XXXV.

Obligations of the public to Mr.Steevens and Mr. ·Malone. The time, when Hamlet was firft acted, not certainly authenticated. ShakSpeare's frequent additions to thofe plays he valued.-Hamlet, firft play of Shakspeare acted at the duke's theatre.-Popularity of Hamlet. -Francifco and Boheme.-Voltaire's difingenuity. Rivals of the watch.- The word ftomach explained. A little more than kin, and less than kind. Too much i'th' fun. A common thought nobly expreffed.-Dr. Johnson supposed to be miftaken.- Parallel paffage, in the Supplicants

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