Now to the Drama turn - Oh! motley sight!


Photograph

Harvard Theatre Collection – TCS 45

... Gayton bounds before th’ enraptured looks
Of hoary Marquises and stripling Dukes.

Engraving of Miss Gayton (ca. 1809).

Byron saw Gayton dance in the comic ballet, Don Quichotte, or les Puces de Gamache, which was performed the same evening as I Villeggiatori Bizzarri.