Excerpt from Occasional Papers: Dramatic and HistoricalOn the night of November 14th, 1746, the excitement of all good playgoers was stirred in an unwonted degree, and criticism prepared itself for a great effort in judgment and discrimination. The occasion was the appearance Of Garrick and Quin at Drury Lane in Rowe's tragedy, The Fair Penitent. It was the first time that the two famous actors had played together in the same piece. Garrick was then in the early years of his extraordinary success. He had come as something of a revelation to those accustomed to the solemn methods of ponderous and declamatory tragedians. Quin was the great representative of this older school. If this young fellow is right, we have all been wrong, he had said of Garrick's Richard III he, the portentous Cato and Brutus, stood in surly Opposition to the lively Hamlet and Richard Of the younger man, that were drawing all the town.Quin, from afar, lured by the scent of fame, A stage Leviathan, put in his claim.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.