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PG-P.754.060
6 Jun 1754:23 (1328)
For the benefit of Miss Hallam, and her two brothers, by a
Company of Comedians from London, at the New Theatre in
Water-street, on Monday next, being the 10th instant, will
be presented a new Tragedy, called
The Gamester.
With the original prologue and epilogue.
To which will be added, a farce, called,
Miss in her Teens.
Tickets to be had at Mrs. Bridge's, over against the Globe,
in Front-street; at Mr. Nicholson's, the sign of Admiral
Warren's Head, in Arch-street; and at Mr. Mullen's, the sign
of the One Tun, in Water-street.
Prices: Box 6s. Pit 4s. Gallery 2s.6d.
To begin at seven a clock. Vivat Rex.
As the principal business of the stage is, or should be,
to satirize vice, and represent her in her true colours,
that youth, and the unexperienced, may receive instruction,
and be the better able to guard against, and avoid her
enchanting deceptions: --Agreeable to this purpose, Mr.
Moore (author of the Foundling, and Gill Blas) has lately
wrote this tragedy of the Gamester.
He, as Mr. Garrick says in the prologue of this play,
Sets for a monster taming,
Arm'd at all points, to fight that hydra, gaming.
And indeed, in this age of the world, a play, representing
the ruinous consequence of this bewitching practice, is
perfectly seasonable, and the author, from his performance,
merits at least the thanks of mankind. This tragedy is
written in prose, after the manner of George Barnwell, and
as it has not long been published, there may not, perhaps,
be many copies of it in this place; but some account of the
drammatick characters may be seen in the Gentleman's
Magazine for February, 1753: After this it may then suffice
to say, that, considering the moral tendency of this
excellent pieces, to see it acted on the stage, is not, nor
cannot be unworthy of any rank of people; for it must be
allowed by all that know the world, that this custom is so
prevalent now-a-days, that men have less to fear, even from
constitutional passions, than from this many headed monster,
gaming.
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