Title: "Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3)
Author: Dr. Doran
Editor: Robert William Lowe
Release date: October 14, 2014 [eBook #47118]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024
Language: English
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Note.—Three Hundred copies of this Edition printed on fine deckle-edge Royal 8vo paper. The fifty Portraits are given in duplicate, one on Japanese and the other on plate paper, as India proofs.
Each of these copies is numbered.
No. ........
Dr. DORAN, F.S.A.
VOLUME THE THIRD
Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
"THEIR MAJESTIES' SERVANTS"
ANNALS
OF
THE ENGLISH STAGE
FROM
THOMAS BETTERTON TO EDMUND KEAN
BY
Dr. DORAN, F.S.A.
EDITED AND REVISED BY ROBERT W. LOWE
With Fifty Copperplate Portraits and Eighty Wood Engravings
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOLUME THE THIRD
LONDON
JOHN C. NIMMO
14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND
MDCCCLXXXVIII
| CHAPTER I. | PAGE |
| OF AUTHORS, AND PARTICULARLY OF CONDEMNED AUTHORS | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| THE AUDIENCES OF THE LAST HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 30 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| CHARLES MACKLIN | 63 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| A BEVY OF LADIES;—BUT CHIEFLY, MRS. BELLAMY, MISS FARREN, MRS. ABINGTON, AND "PERDITA" | 84 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| A GROUP OF GENTLEMEN | 115 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| JOHN HENDERSON | 144 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| SARAH SIDDONS | 153 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| JOHN KEMBLE | 189 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| GEORGE FREDERICK COOKE | 223 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| MASTER BETTY | 239 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| STAGE COSTUME AND STAGE TRICKS | 248 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| PROLOGUE, EPILOGUE; DEDICATIONS AND BENEFITS | 273 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| OLD STAGERS DEPARTING | 301 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| NEW IDEAS; NEW THEATRES; NEW AUTHORS; AND THE NEW ACTORS | 331 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| EDMUND KEAN | 358 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| EDMUND KEAN—CONTINUED | 395 |
VOLUME III.
Engraved by Messrs. Annan and Swan, London.
| PAGE | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I. | Mrs. Siddons | Painted by Gainsborough | Frontispiece | ||
| II. | Mrs. Inchbald | From a rare Engraving | 8 | ||
| III. | John Bannister | From a picture by J. Russell, R.A. | 36 | ||
| IV. | Miss Farren (Countess of Derby) | By T. Lawrence, R. A. | 96 | ||
| V. | Mrs. Abington | From a Mezzotint | 102 | ||
| VI. | John Henderson | Painted by Gainsborough | 146 | ||
| VII. | Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse | By Reynolds | 156 | ||
| VIII. | Mrs. Jordan as Isabella | { | From a picture by George Morland | } | 178 |
| IX. | John Kemble as Penruddock | By M. A. Shee, R.A. | 200 | ||
| X. | Charles Kemble | 212 | |||
| XI. | Fanny Kemble | { | The last work of Sir Thomas Lawrence | } | 218 |
| XII. | George F. Cooke | From a picture by J. Corbett | 230 | ||
| XIII. | Master Betty and his Various Characters | 242 | |||
| XIV. | Richard Suett | From a painting by De Wilde | 254 | ||
| XV. | William Lewis | From a painting by H. R. Cooke | 304 | ||
| XVI. | R. W. Elliston | { | From a painting by G. H. Harlowe, in the Garrick Club | } | 320 |
| XVII. | Edmund Kean | { | From an engraving by S. W. Reynolds | } | 360 |
| XVIII. | Edmund Kean as Shylock | { | Painted from life by W. H. Watt, March 1814 | } | 374 |
VOLUME III.
Engraved by Del Orme & Butler, London, and printed on Japanese paper by Ed. Badoureau, London.
| PAGE | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Mr. Parsons and Miss Pope in "The Drummer" | 1 |
| 2. | Mr. King in "Rule a Wife" | 30 |
| 3. | Mr. Macklin as Shylock | 63 |
| 4. | Mr. Smith and Mrs. Yates in the "Provoked Husband" | 84 |
| 5. | Mr. Palmer as Tag | 115 |
| 6. | Mr. Henderson as Rolla | 144 |
| 7. | Mrs. Siddons as Mrs. Haller | 153 |
| 8. | John P. Kemble | 189 |
| 9. | Interior of Drury Lane Theatre, 1792 | 223 |
| 10. | Master Betty, the Young Roscius | 239 |
| 11. | Norwich Theatre | 248 |
| 12. | Milward's Benefit Ticket—Drawn by Hogarth | 273 |
| 13. | Burning of Drury Lane Theatre, 1809 | 301 |
| 14. | Covent Garden Theatre | 331 |
| 15. | Mr. Kean as Sir Giles Overreach | 358 |
| 16. | J. B. Booth | 395 |
VOLUME III.
| PAGE | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Mr. Foote as the Devil upon Two Sticks | 83 |
| 2. | Mr. Beard as Hawthorne | 114 |
| 3. | Mr. Dunstall as Hodge | 143 |
| 4. | Mr. Moody as Simon | 238 |
| 5. | Mr. Foote as Mrs. Cole | 247 |
| 6. | Mr. Dibdin as Mungo | 272 |
| 7. | Mr. Weston as Dr. Last | 394 |
| 8. | Mr. Foote as Sir Thomas Lofty | 420 |