Excerpt from Old Drury Lane, Vol. 2 of 2: Fifty Years Recollections of Author, Actor, and Manager Betterton preceded Garrick, and until that great actor's a'ebut, held the first rank on the boards of Drury. His Hamlet, Romeo, Lear, Othello, suffered nothing by comparison with the same characters as played by our Roscius. Silver-toned Betterton was a universal favourite. He died in adverse circumstances, 1710. Mrs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.