In 1744 Catherine Clive, the leading comic actress of Drury Lane, took her quarrel with the theatre managers to the public in a short printed appeal, setting out how she had been squeezed on salary and shut out of work. This edition reproduces the pamphlet with an introduction by Richard C. Frushell explaining the theatrical politics of the 1740s.
A rare first-hand voice from an eighteenth-century actress, valuable for historians of the London stage and of women’s work. Download the free EPUB.