"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3)Doran, Dr. (John)
History
"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3)
Doran, Dr. (John)
Actors -- Great Britain; Theater -- Great Britain -- History
[134] Boaden's "Fontainville Forest" might be added.
[135] I do not think this was Thompson's translation.
[136] Should be Cumberland.
[137] Reynold's "Fortune's Fool" might be added.
[138] Translated by Thompson.
[139] Genest says "attributed to Holcroft, but really written by
Fenwick."
[140] Mrs. Inchbald's "Wise Man of the East" might be added.
INDEX.
Abington, Mrs., 186, 242.
Actors as volunteers in the '45, 97.
Actors at court, 132.
Aristophanes, Foote often compared to, 384.
Arne, Miss (Mrs. Cibber), 51;
as Psyche, 269;
as Venus, 269.
Arne, Dr., 269.
Arnould, Sophie, 317.
Ashbury, Dublin Patentee, 101.
Aston, Anthony, in Edinburgh, 193.
Aungier Street Theatre, Dublin, 103.
Authors, list of, with their plays from 1776 to 1800, 398-406.
Bannister, John, first to discard Garrick's mutilation of "Hamlet," 280.
Barry, Mrs. Ann, 277, 293, 339, 344, 346, 348;
as Widow Brady, 279, 344;
as Lady Randolph, 279;
her versatility, 279, 344, 349;
as Lady Townly, 279;
Garrick's high opinion of, 344;
as Desdemona, 344;
account of her career, 347-352;
at the head of her profession, 348;
her marriage with Crawford, 349;
eclipsed by Mrs. Siddons, 351;
her death, 351;
her original characters, 351.
Barry, Mrs. Elizabeth, 4.
Barry, Spranger, 92, 98, 107, 118, 121;
as Altamout, 93;
as Othello, 106, 109, 342, 344;
and Garrick, 108, 112, 113, 336, 337;
his first appearance in London, 109;
as Sir Charles Raymond, 114;
as Romeo, 115, 122;
in "The Earl of Essex," 164;
as Jaffier, 164;
as Pyrocles, 184;
in love with Miss Nossiter, 184;
as Constantine, 184;
leaves for Dublin, 184;
as King Lear, 187;
his return to London, 187;
as Norval, 189;
in Dublin, 249;
opens Crow Street in opposition to Sheridan, 249, 338;
retires from Dublin ruined, 250;
his reappearance in London, 277;
joins the Covent Garden Company, 278;
as Lord Townly, 279;
as Evander, 280;
as Aubrey in "Fashionable Lover," 280;
as Melville in "Duel," 280;
as Tancred, 294;
in Cumberland's "Timon," 294;
his physical decay, 303, 340;
his last appearance, 303;
his death, 303, 341;
account of his private life, 336;
portraits of Barry, 339;
his characteristics, 341;
his excellence in Orestes and Alexander, 342;
his pathos, 342;
and Henry Pelham, 345.
Barton, Fanny (Mrs. Abington), 186, 242.
Beard, John, proprietor of Covent Garden, 261.
"Beggar's Opera," 89.
Bellamy, Mrs., 161;
as Constance, 93, 94;
her dispute with Garrick, 94;
_début_ as Monimia, 95;
carried off by Mr. Metham, 115;
as Juliet, 122;
as Statira, 187;
and Mrs. Woffington, 187;
as Cleone, 243.
Bickerstaffe, Isaac, 296.
Boheme, 22.
Bond, died on the stage, 57.
Booth, Barton, 40, 41, 47.
Bowen, Quin's duel with, 53, 166.
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