ii. 141;

retires because of Booth's being made a manager, ii. 143; his refusal to come to any terms after Booth's admission, ii. 145; goes to law for his rights, ii. 149; the result, ii. 150; Wilks's temper, the real reason of his retirement, ii. 150-155; shows a desire to return to the stage, ii. 157; his final appearances, ii. 158; Cibber's account of his excellence, ii. 158; Anthony Aston's description of, ii. 308.

Doran, Dr. John, his "Annals of the Stage," i. 88, _note_ 3, i. 130, _note_ 1, i. 161, _note_ 3, ii. 62, _note_ 1, ii. 284.

Dorset, Earl of, ii. 305; has Leigh's portrait painted in "The Spanish Friar," i. 146; when Lord Chamberlain, supports Betterton in 1694-1695, i. 192; compliments Cibber on his first play, i. 214.

Dorset Garden, Duke's Theatre, i. xxxii.

---- Theatre, built for Davenant's Company, i. 88, _note_ 2; the subscribers to, called Adventurers, i. 97, _note_ 1.

"Double Dealer, The," i. 185, _note_ 1.

"Double Gallant," cast of, ii. 3, _note_ 2.

Downes, John, his "Roscius Anglicanus," i. 83, _note_ 1, i. 84, _note_ 1, i. 96, _note_ 3, i. 114, _note_ 1, i. 127, _note_ 2, i. 130, _note_ 1, i. 141, _note_ 1, i. 146, _note_ 1, i. 163, _note_ 1, i. 181, _note_ 2, i. 187, _note_ 2, i. 192, _note_ 1, i. 197, _note_ 1, i. 197, _note_ 2, i. 316, _note_ 2, i. 320, _note_ 2, i. 333, _note_ 1, ii. 158, _note_ 3, ii. 320, ii. 323, ii. 328, ii. 330, ii. 332, ii. 334, ii. 340, ii. 341, ii. 342, ii. 346, ii. 347, ii. 348, ii. 349, ii. 350, ii. 356, ii. 359, ii. 360, ii. 361, ii. 362; attended constantly by Cibber and Verbruggen in hope of employment on the stage, i. 74, _note_ 1; the "Tatler" publishes a supposed letter from, ii. 75.

"Dramatic Censor," 1811, ii. 57, _note_ 1, ii. 79, _note_ 2.

Dramatists, Cibber's advice to, ii. 14.

Drury Lane Theatre, i. 92, _note_ 1; opened by King's Company, i. xxxii.; built for Killigrew's Company, i. 88; sometimes called "the theatre in Covent Garden," i. 88, _note_ 1; desertion from in 1733, i. 283; Company (1695), their improvement, i. 314; its Patent, ii. 31; its original construction, ii. 81; why altered, ii. 81; under W. Collier's management, 1709, ii. 91; report on its stability, ii. 176-177.

Dryden, John, ii. 163, _note_ 1, ii. 210, ii. 251; his prologue on opening Drury Lane, 1674, i. 94, _note_ 2, i. 322, _note_ 1; a bad elocutionist, i. 113; his Morat("Aurenge-Zebe"), i. 124; his high praise of Mrs. Elizabeth Barry, i. 158; his prologue to "The Prophetess," i. 187, _note_ 1; his "King Arthur," i. 187, _note_ 2; a sharer in the King's Company, i. 197; his address to the author of "Heroic Love" quoted, i. 231, _note_ 1, ii. 238, _note_ 3; his indecent plays, i. 267; his epilogue to "The Pilgrim," i. 268; his "Secular Masque," i. 268, _note_ 1; his prologue to "The Prophetess" vetoed, ii. 13; his prologues at Oxford, ii. 134, ii. 136, _note_ 1, ii. 137, _note_ 1; expensive revival of his "All for Love," ii. 175.

Dublin, Wilks's success in, i. 235.

"Duchess of Malfy," i. xxv.

Dugdale, Sir William, his "Antiquities of Warwickshire" quoted, i. xxxvi.; mentions the "Ludus Coventriæ," i. xxxviii.

Duke's Servants, The, i. 87, _note_ 1, i. 88.

Duke's Theatre, ii. 336; first theatre to introduce scenery, i. xxxii.

Dulwich College, built and endowed by Edward Alleyn, i. xxviii.

"Dunciad, The," i. 36, _note_ 1, ii. 181, _note_ 1, ii. 182, _note_ 1,