Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Theatres 190 THE AGE OF WALPOLE. [1714 theatres, for the world of fashion had withdrawn to the opera-house. To create counter-attractions the theatres started panto-mimes and harlequinades, and the legitimate drama was banisheduntil the close of the period, when Garrick began to act Shake-speare in the Goodman Fields Theatre. In 1728 the successof Gays Bcijgars Opera at Lincolns Inn Fields gave a briefimpuls
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Theatres 190 THE AGE OF WALPOLE. [1714 theatres, for the world of fashion had withdrawn to the opera-house. To create counter-attractions the theatres started panto-mimes and harlequinades, and the legitimate drama was banisheduntil the close of the period, when Garrick began to act Shake-speare in the Goodman Fields Theatre. In 1728 the successof Gays Bcijgars Opera at Lincolns Inn Fields gave a briefimpulse to the drama as a political instrument; but the Courtparty was able to suppress as licentious ^ all plays which were. THE STAGE IX 1721.(From a contem2:>orarij 2b>t.) hostile to the Government. The Beggcu-s Opera ran fiftynights at Bristol, Bath, and other provincial towns, and by thethirty-sixth night in London, Gay had made £800, and Rich, themanager, £4,000. Lavinia Fenton, who made the part of Polly,received only thirty shillings a week, but was rewarded for hereftbrts by becoming the wife of the Duke of Bolton. In 1781Covent Garden Theatre was built, l)ut opera languished, and at 1 Hervey, Memoirs, iii, 142. SOCIAL LIFE. 191 1742] the close of the period the fashionable world was seeking oratoriofor variety (p. 125). In 1734 an oratorio by Porpora was per-formed at Lincolns Inn Fields; Mrs. Pendarves found it toosolemn for a theatre, and preferred Handels oratorios, Estherand Deborah. In 1741 elaborate scenery was tried at the opera-house, with improved dancing, and for a while the town ranafter it. Horace Walpole says : • They have flung opeu the stage to a great leugtli, and made a p
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