ii. 358;

Mrs. Bracegirdle returns to play for his benefit, i. 174; ill-treated by the Patentees, i. 188; makes a party against them, i. 189; obtains a licence in 1695, i. 192, _note_ 1, i. 194; mimicked by Powell, i. 205, i. 207, _note_ 1; his versatility, i. 211; his difficulty in managing at Lincoln's Inn Fields, i. 228; as a prologue-speaker, i. 271; inability to keep order in his Company, i. 315; said to be specially favoured by the Lord Chamberlain, ii. 18; declines management in, 1709, ii. 69; advertisement regarding his salary (1709), ii. 78, _note_ 1; his superiority to Wilks and Booth, ii. 245; Anthony Aston's description of, ii. 299; and the puppet-show keeper, ii. 301; Bellchambers's memoir of, ii. 333.

Betterton's Company (1695 to, 1704), their decline, i. 314; disorders in, i. 315.

Biblical narratives dramatized in the "Ludus Coventriæ," i. xxxvii. _et seq._

Bibliography of Colley Cibber, ii. 289-296.

Bickerstaffe, Isaac (author), ii. 288.

Bickerstaffe, John (actor), ii. 77, _note_ 1, ii. 94, _note_ 1; threatens Cibber for reducing his salary, i. 71, _note_ 1.

Bignell, Mrs., ii. 77, _note_ 1, ii. 129, _note_ 2.

"Biographia Britannica," ii. 360.

"Biographia Dramatica," i. 184, _note_ 1, i. 278, _note_ 1, i. 330, _note_ 1, ii. 14, _note_ 1, ii. 332, ii. 336, ii. 337, _note_ 1, ii. 359, _note_ 1.

Bird, Theophilus, an eminent actor, i. xxvi.

Blackfriar's Company, "men of grave and sober behaviour," i. xxvii.

---- Theatre, i. xxv., i. xxvi., i. xxviii., i. xlix.; its excellent company, i. xxiv., i. xxvi.

Blanc, Abbé Le, his account of a theatre riot, i. 278, _note_ 1.

"Blast upon Bays, A," ii. 266.

"Bloody Brother, The," actors arrested while playing, i. xxx.

Booth, Barton, i. 157, ii. 36, _note_ 1, ii. 77, _note_ 1, ii. 94, _note_ 1, ii. 95, _note_ 1, ii. 110, ii. 128, ii. 129, _note_ 2, ii. 167, ii. 230, ii. 232, ii. 320, ii. 361, ii. 363; Memoirs of, published immediately after his death, i. 5; story told by him of Cibber, i. 63, _note_ 1; his veneration for Betterton, i. 101, _note_ 1; his indolence alluded to by Cibber, i. 103; his reverence for tragedy, i. 121; his Morat, i. 122; his Life, by Theo. Cibber, quoted, i. 122, _note_ 1, i. 123, _note_ 2, ii. 130, _note_ 2, ii. 140, _note_ 1; his Henry VIII., i. 123, _note_ 2; is warned by Powell's excesses to avoid drinking, i. 260; as a prologue-speaker, i. 271; elects to continue at Drury Lane in 1709, ii. 70; his marriage, ii. 96, _note_ 1; the reason of the delay in making him a manager, ii. 114; his success as Cato, ii. 130-133; his claim to be made a manager on account of his success, ii. 130; supported by Lord Bolingbroke, ii. 130, _note_ 2; his name added to the Licence, ii. 140; the terms of his admission as sharer, ii. 144; his suffering from Wilks's temper, ii. 155; his connection with Steele during the dispute about Steele's patent, ii. 193, _note_ 1; Wilks's jealousy of, ii. 223; a scene with Wilks, ii. 234-237; and Wilks, their opinion of each other, ii. 240; his deficiency in humour, ii. 240; formed his style on Betterton, ii. 241; Cibber's comparison of Wilks and Booth, ii. 239-245; his Othello and Cato, ii. 243; memoir of, ii. 254, _note_ 1; Patent granted to him, Wilks, and Cibber, after Steele's death,