jan 1, 1759 - Oliver Goldsmith published his "Essay enquiring into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe"

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highlighted the problems facing untried playwrights

- for the remainder of the eighteenth century, the cautious managers of Drury Lane and Covent Garden were inclined to reject work from new and untried writers in preference to tried and tested work that had been written prior to the Licensing Act

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