[11] See the figure of Captain Pouts in _Woman is a Weathercock_. He might easily have been made a mere _miles gloriosus_; instead he is a real man,--coarse, revengeful, dissolute, quarrelsome, hectoring--no doubt at heart a coward, but not more absurdly so in the face of his pretensions than many of his type in actual life. For characters clearly visualized in a few simple strokes, may be noted in the same play Lady Ninny, Lucida, and, apart from one speech (M. 356-7) out of character obviously for comic effect, Kate; in _Amends for Ladies_, Ingen. Examples of Field’s power in more idealistic work may be found in _The Knight of Malta_ in the delineation of Montferrat’s passion (I, i) and in the scene between Miranda and Oriana (V, i).
[12] Apparently _The Fatal Dowry_ was not performed every day.
[13] During the run of this play one Warren, who was Powell’s dresser, claimed a right of lying for his master and performing the dead part of Lothario--about the middle of the scene Powell called for Warren; who as loudly replied from the stage, “Here Sir”--Powell (who was ignorant of the part his man was doing) repeated without loss of time, “Come here this moment you Son of a Whore or I’ll break all the bones in your skin”--Warren knew his hasty temper, and therefore without any reply jumped up with all his sables about him, which unfortunately were tied to the handles of the bier and dragged after him--but this was not all--the laugh and roar began in the audience and frightened poor Warren so much that with the bier at his tail he threw down Calista and overwhelmed her, with the table, lamp, books, bones, &c.--he tugged till he broke off his trammels and made his escape, and the play at once ended with immoderate fits of laughter--Betterton would not suffer The Fair Penitent to be played again, till poor Warren’s misconduct was somewhat forgotten--this story was told to Chetwood by Bowman [Sciolto]--(GENEST, II, 281-2).
[14] This, of course, may require the substitution of a capital for a small letter, as when a mid-line word of the Quarto becomes in the re-alignment the first word of the verse.
G. and S. omit _Officers_, and add those roles which are enclosed in brackets.