{"id":67,"date":"2009-01-05T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-04-08T15:45:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T14:45:18","slug":"baddeley-cake-and-wine-on-5-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Baddeley Cake: a happy tradition for Twelfth Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A happy new year! I have just come across the information in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<\/a> that the Drury Lane Theatre has for 200 years celebrated this day, 5 January, with cake and wine thanks to the generosity of Robert Baddeley, the first Moses in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/resources\/sheridan.html\">The School for Scandal<\/a>.  According to the entry, &#8216;Baddeley&#8230; created a small trust whereby every 5 January the Drury Lane company, still in their costumes, receive a glass of punch and slice of cake, known as the \u2018Baddeley Cake\u2019. This tradition was still being maintained at the close of the twentieth century.&#8217; Has it survived into the twenty-first? I very much hope so &#8211; I&#8217;m sure the actors deserve it! The tradition was referred to by Dickens in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorianlondon.org\/entertainment\/drurylanetheatre.htm\">Dictionary of London<\/a> of 1879.<\/p>\n<p>You can see a painting of Baddeley in role as Moses at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk\/picture-of-month\/displaypicture.asp?venue=7&#038;id=187\">Lady Lever Art Gallery<\/a> in Liverpool &#8211; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk\/picture-of-month\/displaypicture.asp?venue=7&#038;id=187\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>, with  helpful notes. He certainly looks a genial soul!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A festive tradition set up by the first Moses in &#8216;The School for Scandal&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,36],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre","tag-christmas","tag-sheridan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}