Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Bristol Stage: Its Story
So far back as a.d. 1804, there was a dramatic club, known as The Wigs, the title being suggested by the varied assortment of hirsute adornments essential to complete stage representations. At the first meeting of the members, October 9th in that year, and under the presi dency of Stephen Kemble, Esq., Manager of the Theatre Royal, N ew castle, Theatres North and South Shields, Durham, Scarborough, and various other places, Mr. J. Smith, of the Theatres Bath and Bristol, recited an original poem, The Wigs, and upon acceding to a widely expressed desire that he should publish it, penned the following preface If men in general reasoned on the broad scale of re?ection, or knew the inconvenience attending a publication; the hopes, fears, anxiety and apprehension that at intervals oppress and weigh upon the mind of an author (however fair he stands in the estimation of a liberal and generous public), they would cease to think lightly, much less to censure this or that production, seeing that it was done with a good intent.
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