LONDON THEATRE. A COLLECTION OF THE Most celebrated Bramatic Pieces. CORRECTLY GIVEN, FROM COPIES USED IN THE THEATRES, DISTREST MOTHER. A Tragedy. BY AMBROSE PHILIPS. CORRECTLY GIVEN, FROM COPIES USED IN THE THEATRES, BY THOMAS DIBDIN, OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. Printed at the Chiswick Press, FOR WHITTINGHAM AND ARLISS, PATERNOSTER THE DISTREST MOTHER Is taken from the tragedy of ANDROMAQUE, by Racine, and was first acted at Drury Lane in 1712. Mr. Addison, from the warm interest he took (in common with many learned and celebrated cotemporaries) in the success of this play, has made it the subject of two numbers of the Spec\tator; the one produced prior to the play, and a second during the run of it. The epilogue also, supposed to be furnished by Mr. Addison, was so well received as to have been encored on each of the three first nights of representation. |