Note 11 — Chapter IV · 1871. ‘THE BELLS’—WILLS’S ‘CHARLES I.’

“Lyceum.—Charles I., Mr. Henry Irving. The profound admiration that has been manifested by all classes (for the past four months) in this noble poetic play, and the unqualified approval bestowed by the most illustrious auditors upon Mr. Henry Irving’s great creation of the martyr-king, have marked a new era in public taste. The manager is proud to be able to announce that the immense audiences nightly assembled render any change in the performances impossible.—Miss Isabel Bateman, in her tender and exquisitely pathetic portraiture of Queen Henrietta Maria.—Mr. George Belmore, in his vigorous and masterly assumption of Oliver Cromwell.” Thus the modern Elliston.