Crossword-Solution: BETTERTON 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Thus he encounters Colonel Reames, “a man,” says he, “who understands and loves a play as well as I, and I love him for it.” And again, when he and his wife had seen a most ridiculous insipid piece, “Glad we were,” he writes, “that Betterton had no part in it.” It is by such a zeal and loyalty to those who labour for his delight that the amateur grows worthy of the artist.

Betterton in his private journal seems to have seen this piece; and he says distinctly that Henry is the best part in any play.

But in this I have ever feared to do ill, and indeed will not be persuaded to that undertaking.’ So says Betterton.

There was Betterton, first of all, the versatile, the restrained, and, witness everybody, the incomparable.

Imagine Betterton, the greatest actor of his time, delivering that last speech, with its incomparable rhythm! I like to think that he gave the spectators an idea that Valentine’s self-sacrifice for Angelica was nothing but a bold device, a calculated effect; otherwise the sacrifice is an excrescence in this comedy, which, popular and broad though it be, is cynical in Congreve’s manner throughout.