During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and performances of celebrated entertainers. This series features actors who were significant in their development of new ways of performing Shakespeare.
LIVES OF SHAKESPEARIAN ACTORS II VOLUME 2: SARAH SIDDONS Introduction;
Poems and Poetic Tributes; Thomas Sedgwick Whalley, Verses Addressed to Mrs.
Siddons, on Her Being Engaged at the Theatre-Royal (1782) William Russell, Th
e Tragic Muse: A Poem Addressed to Mrs. Siddons (1783) The Theatrical
Portrait, a Poem, on the Celebrated Mrs. Siddons (1783) Thomas Young, The
Siddoniad: A Characteristical and Critical Poem (1784) The New Rosciad in the
Manner of Churchill (1787) Joanna Baillie, To Mrs. Siddons, in Joanna
Baillie (ed.), A Collection of Poems (1823) Biographies and Stage Histories
Thomas Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies (1785) Th e Secret History of the Green
Room (1795) James Boaden, Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble (1825)
James Boaden, Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons (1827) James Boaden, Memoirs of Mrs.
Inchbald (1833) Thomas Campbell, Life of Mrs. Siddons (1834) Percy
Fitzgerald, The Kembles (1871) Essays and Essayists; The Beauties of Mrs.
Siddons (1786) Edwins Pills to Purge Melancholy (1788) James Ballantyne,
Dramatic Characters of Mrs. Siddons (1812) William Hazlitt, A View of the
English Stage (1821) George Joseph Bell, Mrs. Siddons as Lady Macbeth,
Nineteenth Century (1878) Letters, Diaries and Memoirs Catherine Galindo,
Mrs. Galindos Letter to Mrs. Siddons (1809) Frances Burney, Diary and
Letters of Madame DArblay (18426) Frances Anne Kemble, Record of a Girlhood
(1878) Oswald G. Knapp (ed.), An Artists Love Story (1905) Newspaper
Articles Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, 3 February 1785 Morning Chronicle
and London Advertiser, 14 February 1785 Morning Chronicle, 1 July 1812
Series Editor: Gail Marshall, Consulting Editor: Tetsuo Kishi, Volume Editors: Jim Davis (Edmund Kean), Lisa A. Freeman (Sarah Siddons), Peter Raby (Harriet Smithson).
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