Author, Unknown unknown The entry reads only 'theatre', but it seems highly likely that Godwin went to see The Beggar's Opera and Is He A Prince? at Covent Garden, where the Old Price riots continued. It is not surprising that Godwin failed to enter the names of the plays and he may not even have have been aware of what was being performed: The Times reported the following day that 'not a word or a note of it could be heard, from beginning to end.' Kemble came on stage at the beginning and end of the performance and tried to insist on the necessity of the new prices. See 'Covent Garden Theatre opens', 18 September 1809.