Kean 292 Mr. Kean’s Shylock 294 The Oratorios 296 Richard III. 298 Romeo and Juliet 300 Mr. Kemble’s Sir Giles Overreach 302 Bertram 304 Adelaide, or the Emigrants 308 Every Man in his Humour 310 Mrs. Siddons 312 New English Opera House 314 The Jealous Wife 316 The Man of the World 318 Miss Merry’s Mandane 320 Exit by Mistake 321 The Italian Opera 324 Old Customs 327 My Landlady’s Night-Gown 328 Castle of Andalusia 329 Two Words 330 The Wonder 332 The Distressed Mother 334 Miss Boyle’s Rosalind 336 Mr. Macready’s Othello 338 Theatrical Debuts 341 Mr. Kemble’s Cato 342 The Iron Chest 342 Mr. Kemble’s King John 345 Coriolanus 347 The Man of the World 350 Jane Shore 352 The Humorous Lieutenant 353 Two New Ballets 353 Mr. Booth’s Duke of Gloster 354 Mr. Booth’s Iago 354 Mr. Booth’s Richard 357 Double Gallant 359 Don Juan 362 The Conquest of Taranto 366 The Touch-Stone 368 The Libertine 370 Barbarossa 372 Mrs. Siddons’s Lady Macbeth 373 Mr. Maywood’s Shylock 374 Mr. Kemble’s Retirement 374 PREFACE