Shakspere to Sheridan; a book about the theatre of yesterday and to-day . THE PLAYWRIGHTS 3^ to form a partnership with still another playwright who— like Gibber and Vanbrugh — was not merely a play-wright. I shall show presently that Sir Richard Steele,by his genial puffing of the actors even more than by hisown plays, richly earned the £700 to £1000 a year that hedrew as joint patentee of Drury Lane for some years after1714.^ Meanwhile, two names remain to be added to ourlist of playwright-sharers, and these, also, we shall meetagain and again later. Garrick, as every one knows, foundtime to
Shakspere to Sheridan; a book about the theatre of yesterday and to-day . THE PLAYWRIGHTS 3^ to form a partnership with still another playwright who— like Gibber and Vanbrugh — was not merely a play-wright. I shall show presently that Sir Richard Steele,by his genial puffing of the actors even more than by hisown plays, richly earned the £700 to £1000 a year that hedrew as joint patentee of Drury Lane for some years after1714.^ Meanwhile, two names remain to be added to ourlist of playwright-sharers, and these, also, we shall meetagain and again later. Garrick, as every one knows, foundtime to write plays of his own, besides fulfilling his dutiesas actor and manager; and Sheridan, when (in 1776) hesucceeded Garrick at Drury Lane, had already made hismark by writing The Rivals and The Duenna for CoventGarden. A crowded century stretches between Dryden andSheridan, and it is time to see how the playwrights whoheld no shares fared during this period. I have alreadystated that the proceeds of their benefits came to be thechief part of their income, and I
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