 At Drury Lane later in 1800 , he starred as an officer in The Wheel of Fortune by Richard Cumberland , a Jewish pedlar in The Indian , as Clown in Robinson Crusoe , and as the Second Gravedigger in Hamlet , alongside John Philip Kemble . Grimaldi 's wife Maria and his unborn child died during childbirth on 18 October 1800 . To cope with his grief , Grimaldi would often perform two shows a night ; one at Sadler 's Wells and the other at Drury Lane . 
