Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Anthony Aston, Stroller and Adventurer: To Which Is Appended Aston's Brief Supplement to Colley Cibber's Lives; And a Sketch of the Life of Anthony Aston, Written by Himself
This paucity of information about Aston is the more surprising, inasmuch as during his own lifetime, he was so universally known in England and Ireland that his name was a mere byword that wanted no explaining. Not only had he played in all the Theatres in London, but he was as well known in every town as the post horse that carries the mail. Probably no actor of his time, with the possible exception of Dog get, was known to so many people. Nearly every one who could raise a shilling for the pur pose had been convulsed at Tony's grimaces. He was so familiar to all that his name grew into a figure of speech. After his own generation, however, until. Now, all that attached to the name of Tony Aston, making it a living person ality, was forgotten, save the few choice samples preserved by Chetwood. Just as the old Drury Lane prompter, John Downes, is known to us simply as the author of the priceless Roscius Anglicanas, so Tony Aston has come down to us as the blackguard author of the no less rare Brief Supplement: the person who went by that name has vanished and left not sufficient for even a sticks-and-rags man.
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