"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3)

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This volume chronicles the English stage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, surveying dramatic authorship, audience habits, and performance practice. It offers biographical and critical sketches of prominent actors and actresses—Macklin, Henderson, Sarah Siddons, John Kemble, George Frederick Cooke, Edmund Kean, and youthful Master Betty—alongside discussions of comedic and tragic trends, condemned or failing playwrights, and the rise of new theatres and ideas. Chapters examine stage costume, special effects, benefit performances, prologues and epilogues, and the theatrical marketplace, supplemented by portraits and illustrations that document the period’s theatrical life.

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[19] Her last appearance was 26th May 1780.

[20] I cannot find any mention of her earlier than 1735.

[21] 1780.

[22] Mrs. Cibber died on 30th January 1766.

[23] Mrs. Bellamy calls this lady Godfrey.

[24] The benefit took place on 24th May 1785.

[25] Mrs. Pope's name is in the bills for the last time on 26th January 1797.

[26] Mrs. Abington played the Widow Belmour, in "The Way to Keep Him," at Drury Lane, on 27th November 1765, being "her first appearance there for five years."

[27] "The Miniature Picture" is not by Mrs. Robinson, but by the Margravine of Anspach.

[28] Her last appearance was no doubt on 31st May 1780, when "Rule a Wife," and the "Miniature Picture" were played.

[29] Miss Stephens died February 22, 1882.