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The revival of Richard the Third, as Shakspere wrote it,

is popular at Sadler's Wells; where it has been produced in splendid style, Phelps play- ing Glo'ster. This only proves that Shakspere knew more of his art than the stage-coblers who sacrificed dramatic consistency to claptrap: but the proof is well worth seeing.