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Spranger Barry
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THIS celebrated actor was, perhaps, in no part so excellent as that of
Romeo, for which he was particularly fitted by an uncommonly handsome
and commanding person, and a silver-toned voice. At the time that he
attracted the town to Covent Garden by his excellent performance of his
part, Garrick found it absolutely necessary to divide the attention of
the public by performing Romeo himself at Drury Lane. He wanted the
natural advantages of Barry, and, great as he was, would, perhaps, have
willingly avoided such a contention. This, at least, seems to have been
a prevailing opinion; for in the garden scene, when Juliet in
soliloquy exclaims, O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? an
auditor archly replied, aloud, Because Barry has gone to the other
house.
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