. Ireland in London. much offence to some managerswho were accustomed to use all kinds of threatsand menaces, and to exercise various smalltyrannies towards their actors, by his determina-tion J/ob to submit to harsh treatment in anyshape. Ha was not only an actor of great merit,but he also wrote The Country Wake, acomedywhich was performed in 1696 with some success,and which, when changed to a farce under thename of Flora; or, Hob in the Well, was verypopular. Probably his highest distinction was woniufseveral of Congreves plays, comic characters inwhich were written specially for him y the w
. Ireland in London. much offence to some managerswho were accustomed to use all kinds of threatsand menaces, and to exercise various smalltyrannies towards their actors, by his determina-tion J/ob to submit to harsh treatment in anyshape. Ha was not only an actor of great merit,but he also wrote The Country Wake, acomedywhich was performed in 1696 with some success,and which, when changed to a farce under thename of Flora; or, Hob in the Well, was verypopular. Probably his highest distinction was woniufseveral of Congreves plays, comic characters inwhich were written specially for him y the witty and licentious author. Doggett died on September 22nd, 1721, and was buried at Eltham, a little-way out of London. Contemporaneous with his-arrival in England (1691) was the advent otanother Irish actor, named Bowen, a clever lowcomedy actor, but inferior to Doggett. He wasvery capable, and might have occupied a very com-manding position on the English Stage if hiscareer had not been cut short by a quarrel with. THOMAS DOGGETT. (From a rare contemporary print.) Quin, in which he was killed—a fatal result duemore to his ungovernable temper than to any wil-lul intention of Quin. The latter great actor,though born in 1693, belongs properly to the 18 thcentury, and will be presently referred to. Butthere i3 one eminent actor yet unmentioued—Robert Wilks—who, born in 1670, went on th«stage before the closeof the century, andmay be placed amongthe best of Irish per-formers. As an imper-sonator of the lover,the fine gentleman, andthe gallant, he had inhis own sphere no equalduring one period ofhis career, and few;superiors at any gay sparks of Con- WILKS. greve, Farquhar, and Cibbers comedies were his most popular it would seem as though he particu-larly excelled a3 Sir Harry Wildair, Archer,Captain Plume, Young Mirabel, and the otherleading gentlemen of his friend. Farquhar»
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