The Life of an Actor
by Pierce Egan
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Excerpt from The Life of an Actor Proteus visits the Craven's Head Tavern, in Drury Lane to take a parting glass with Horatio Quill, pre vious to Peregrine's excursion into the country. An outline of the frequenters of the Craven's Head, with a sketch of the Coffee Room. Numerous occupations of Mine Host por trayed in an original song - the P.'s in perfection. Proteus joins Mr. Plausible Screw's (the brown paper manager) Company of Comedians at Scanty Corner. The talents displayed by our show more hero make moons of all the stars but Peregrine gets under a cloud before he is aware of his danger. He leaves Mr. Screw in disgust returns to town to seek a more respectable engage ment. Bad begins, but worse remains behind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. show lessTags
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