Shakspere to Sheridan; a book about the theatre of yesterday and to-day . arly so well as their predecessors. Certain traditional reports, to be sure, credit the Res-toration players with huge earnings. The Hisioria His-trionica (1699), for instance, has it that for several yearsafter 1660 Hart and other leading players at the KingsTheatre cleared £1,000 a season,^ — a quite impossiblestory, and one that is contradicted flatly by every otherbit of evidence available. Malone and Bellchambers putHarts salary at £3 a week, with an additional 6j. 3^. forevery acting day (or between £50 and £60 a y
Shakspere to Sheridan; a book about the theatre of yesterday and to-day . arly so well as their predecessors. Certain traditional reports, to be sure, credit the Res-toration players with huge earnings. The Hisioria His-trionica (1699), for instance, has it that for several yearsafter 1660 Hart and other leading players at the KingsTheatre cleared £1,000 a season,^ — a quite impossiblestory, and one that is contradicted flatly by every otherbit of evidence available. Malone and Bellchambers putHarts salary at £3 a week, with an additional 6j. 3^. forevery acting day (or between £50 and £60 a year) fromthe earnings of his share,^ and this is probably a fair esti-mate, for it is known definitely that the salary of Better-ton, after he resigned his managerial authority in 1705, 1 Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines, I, 313 fF. 2 See above, p. 22, n. i. 3 Reprinted in Lowes edition of Gibbers Apology, I, xxxii; cf. Malone,III, 172, note 9. * Malone, III, 179, note; Bellchambers, in his edition of GibbersApology, 1822, p. 74; cf. Gildon, Lije oj Betterton, p.
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