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… sentiments to defend their actions. Whereas in 1706, Jeremy Collier could write, ‘whether the Trade of an Actor be a lawful Trade or not, I’m sure ‘tis not a Trade of good Reputation,’ 18 by the late 1700s, actors like Garrick and … in Jeremy Barlow and Berta Joncus (eds), The Stage’s Glory: John Rich (1692-1761) (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011), pp. 46-48. During Whiggish Member of Parliament Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s tenure as proprietor and …
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