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#OTD in 1809.

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, is destroyed by fire. When found drinking wine in the street while watching the conflagration, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the proprietor, is reported as saying: "A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside." The putative manuscript of The History of Cardenio may have been lost in the blaze.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Drury_Lane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Cardenio

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