Regency actors in a small town inn. They sit in the kitchen near the hearth while the theatre manager argues with the hotelier. Provincial Actors on the route. Scene: The Blue Devils. The manager in distress, Proteus in the dumps, To be or not to be, and the Bill too strong for the Treasury but not for the House. Handcoloured engraving etched by Theodore Lane from Pierce Egan’s The Life of an Actor, Pickering and Chatto, London, 1892.

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