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Introduction
The Covent Garden Theatre
Augustan Reprints
Transcriber’s Notes and Text Images
The Augustan Reprint Society
CHARLES MACKLIN
THE COVENT GARDEN
THEATRE,
OR
Paſquin Turn’d Drawcanſir
(1752)
INTRODUCTION
BY
JEAN B. KERN
PUBLICATION NUMBER 116
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University of California, Los Angeles
1965
GENERAL EDITORS
Earl R. Miner, University of California, Los Angeles
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, LosAngeles
Lawrence Clark Powell, Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library
ADVISORY EDITORS
Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
John Butt, University of Edinburgh
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles
Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles
James Sutherland, University College, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, LosAngeles
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Edna C. Davis,