He adapted Novelty Lethe into the farce The Lying Valet, and himself wrote Lethe, or Aesop in the Shades, while J.R. Crawford dramatized his affair with Margaret Woffington in Lovely Peggy.
In The Rosciad, Charles Churchill wrote that "to be pleas'd with nature" was to be pleased with this man. He adapted Novelty Lethe into the farce The Lying Valet, and himself wrote Lethe, or Aesop in the Shades, while J.R. Crawford dramatized his affair with Margaret Woffington in Lovely Peggy. Richard Sheridan wrote that he "No fix'd effect, no model leaves behind!" in a funeral poem for this man, who wrote the prologue to Sheridan's The School for Scandal. In Tom Jones, Partridge is less impressed with him than with King Hamlet, since the style he pioneered as manager of the Drury Lane Theater and as a portrayer of Richard III and Macbeth seemed less work than the older, theatrical acting style. For 10 points, name this foremost actor of eighteenth-century England.
In The Rosciad, Charles Churchill wrote that "to be pleas'd with nature" was to be pleased with this man.
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