… plays by Shakespeare ( As You Like It , Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice in 1741 and in 1747, The Tempest and Love’s Labour’s Lost) 8 in Drury Lane . It led to the development and improvement of his pioneering and innovative … on his lowborn and Irish roots. In 1759, he returned to the theatre and had his first success as a playwright with Love à la mode . But this play was stolen by unprincipled publishers in London and proprietors of the Crow Street Theatre …
… He relaxes in the feast of reason, in the intercourses of society, in the sweets of friendship, in the endearments of love, in the exercise (…) of all the benevolent and generous affections (…)’. 8 7 . Stephen Tomkins, The Clapham Sect: …