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020			_a9781529422573
040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a823.92 ARD
100			_aArditti, Michael _eauthor
245			_a The young pretender : _bor the dramatic return of master betty / _cMichael Arditti.
300			_a191 pages ; _c20cm.
520			_aMobbed by the masses, lionised by the aristocracy, courted by royalty and lusted after by patrons of both sexes, the child actor William Henry West Betty was one of the most famous people in Georgian Britain. At the age of thirteen, he played leading roles, including Romeo, Macbeth and Richard III , in theatres across the country. Prime Minister William Pitt adjourned the House of Commons so that its members could attend his debut as Hamlet at Covent Garden. Then, as rivals turned on him and
650			_aEnglish fiction
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