"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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[88] That is, the next season; the "Roman Father" was produced 24th February 1750.

[89] It was Lewis's father who quited business for the stage.

[90] His success over Mossop was only in one part, a comedy character utterly unfitted for the latter.

[91] Some valuable remarks on this subject will be found in the article "Lewis Hallam, the Second," by Edward Eggleston in Brander Matthews' and Laurence Hutton's "Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States": New York, 1886.

[92] Tate Wilkinson says she played Calista, and sang a song after the tragedy.

[93] It is generally held that Wilkinson himself gave her the name of Jordan.

[94] Should be 1794-95.

[95] I do not know any reason for saying that he was in want.

[96] Should be 1796. The date was 25th June.

[97] 1824, 31st May.

[98] Mrs. Lefanu's "Prejudice" may be added.

[99] That is, no new piece of any importance.

[100] There were at Covent Garden also Young, and Mrs. Jordan.