Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.
LIVES OF SHAKESPEARIAN ACTORS III VOLUME 1: CHARLES KEAN Introduction
Notice of a Testimonial to Charles Kean, The Annual Register of the Year
1862 (1863) A. Bunn, The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain (1840) The
Celebrated Eton Boy and Sing-Song Play-House Pigeon (1859) J. K. Chapman
(ed.), The Court Theatre, and Royal Dramatic Record (1849) J. W. Cole, The
Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean (1859) A. Darbyshire, The Art of
the Victorian Stage: Notes and Recollections (1907) The Kean Banquet Banquet
Testimonial to Charles Kean (1859) Review of Kean Banquet, Musical World
(1859) Richard II The Scenery in Richard II at the Princesss Theatre,
Builder (1857) C. Kean, Preface and Historical Notes to King Richard II,
(1860), excerpts C. Kean, Playbill for King Richard the Second C. Scott, How
Charles Kean Played Richard the Second, Sketch (1899) George Henry Lewes G.
H. Lewes, On Actors and the Art of Acting (1875), excerpt Vivian [ G. H.
Lewes], Review of Macbeth, Leader (1853) H. Morley, The Journal of a London
Playgoer fr om 18511866 (1866), excerpt J. E. Murdoch, The Stage, Or,
Recollections of Actors and Acting (1880), excerpts G. C. D. Odell,
Shakespeare fr om Betterton to Irving (1920), excerpts The Princesss Theatre
Princesss Theatre, The Times of London (1857) The Princesss Theatre,
New York Times (1858) Punch Magazine The Princesss Spectacle, Punch
Magazine [ London] (1857) Touching Things Theatrical, Punch Magazine,
[ Melbourne] (1854) Lloyds Weekly Newspaper Review of Keans Henry VIII,
Lloyds Weekly London Newspaper (1855) Review of Keans King Lear, Lloyds
Weekly London Newspaper (1858) The Tempest Review of The Tempest, and Richard
II, Art-Journal (1857) C. Kean, Preface and Historical Notes to The Tempest
(1857), excerpts Review of The Tempest, The Times of London (2 July 1857)
Review of The Tempest, The Times of London (3 July 1857) Review of The
Tempest, The Times of London (6 July 1857) Review of The Tempest, Literary
Gazette (1857) Review of The Tempest, Examiner (1857) Review of The Tempest,
Morning Chronicle (1857) Review of The Tempest, Bells Weekly Messenger (1857)
Review of The Tempest, Era (1857) Hamlet Review of Hamlet, The Times (1859)
Review of Hamlet, Lloyds Weekly Newspaper (1859) Review of Hamlet, Morning
Post (1859) Review of Hamlet, Era (1859) Letters: Letter from Charles Kean to
Unknown Correspondent, 10 September 1856 Letter from Ellen Kean to Queen
Victoria, 28 June 1857 Letter from Queen Victoria to Ellen Kean, 24 January
1868, Editorial Notes
Series Editor: Gail Marshall, Consulting Editor: Tetsuo Kishi, Volume Editors: Robert Sawyer (Charles Kean), Julia Swindells & David Francis Taylor (Samuel Phelps), Richard Foulkes (William Charles Macready)