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VGW(HU.772.021
20 Feb 1772:31 (1073)
Charles Hulet, a famous English comedian, had been placed
out apprentice to a bookseller. By reading play books in
the shop he acquired a taste for acting learned parts, and
repeated them in the evening, when the business of the day
was over. But this, his amusement, often proceeded to the
destruction of some chairs he had placed in different
positions to represent the persons of the drama. One night,
assuming the character of Alexander, he took a great chair
to represent Clytus; and, coming to the passage where the
young monarch kills the old general, he gave the chair so
violent a rap with a cudgel, that served him as javelin,
that the poor representative of Clytus was dashed to pieces,
not without making a great noise. The bookseller, his wife,
and servants, astonished by the racket, ran out to know the
cause of it; and Hulet told them, with great composure, that
they need not be frighted, it was nothing more than
Alexander's having just killed Clytus.
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