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Excerpt from The Acting National Drama, Comprising Every Popular New Play, Farce, Melo-Drama, Opera, Burletta, Etc., Carefully Printed From the Prompting Copies, Vol. 3: Puss in Boots; The Ringdoves; Black Domino; Our Mary Anne; Shocking Events; The Culprit; Confounded Foreigners; The Dancing Barber; All for Love, or the Lost Pleiad; The Spitalfields Weaver; The Rifle Brigade; Angeline; Truth
Late Charles Mathews, who was so justly celebrated for his inimitable mono-dramatic entertainments. He was born in Liverpool on what is termed boxing night, December 26th, 1803, and is consequently in the thirty-fifth year of his age. We should almost imagine, from the comic turn he has inhe rited for mimicry, and rapid personation of character, that like Shelty, he was launched into the world laughing. His daddy laughed, his mammy laughed, and every body laughed till they cried. Of the freaks of his infant years we have no knowledge, until he attained the age of twelve, when he was placed on the foundation at Merchant Tailor's School, by the Recorder of London, with the intention of educating him for the church. While there he boarded with the head master, the Rev. Thomas Cherry. The close air of the city not agreeing with his health, he was removed just as he had gained the fifth form, to Mr. Richardson's school, in the. 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.
