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

by Dr. Doran

"Their Majesties' Servants"

Dr. DORAN, F.S.A.

VOLUME THE THIRD

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Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON

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"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

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[CONTENTS.]

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, MISSFARREN, 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 THENEW ACTORS	[331]
CHAPTER XV.
EDMUND KEAN	[358]
CHAPTER XVI.
EDMUND KEAN—CONTINUED	[395]

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