"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
Clairon, the French actress, 15, 317.
Clarke, actor, 295.
Clive, Kitty, 50, 55, 59, 291, 354;
as Euphrosyne, 67;
as Lettice, 139;
her marriage, 355;
as Bizarre, 357;
as a mimic, 357;
her power over her audiences, 357;
as Lucy, 357;
her original characters, 357, 362;
her farewell to the stage, 358;
in her retirement, 359;
and Horace Walpole, 360;
her death, 362.
Colman, the elder, 245;
his "Jealous Wife," 246;
part author of the "Clandestine Marriage," 246;
and Garrick, 324.
Cooke, Thomas, dramatist, 60, 89.
Cooper, Mrs., dramatist, 58.
Covent Garden, opening of, 30, 31;
sold for £60,000, 261.
Cradock, dramatist, 294.
Crawford, an Irish barrister, marries Mrs. Barry, 349;
becomes an actor, 349;
his bad conduct, 349, 350;
his shabbiness, 350.
Crawford, Mrs. (see Mrs. Barry), overshadowed by Mrs. Siddons, 351;
her last appearance, 351.
Crisp, Henry, his "Virginia," 183.
Critics, 143.
Cumberland, Richard, his "Timon," 294;
his numerous plays, 296, 297;
his "Wheel of Fortune," 297;
his "Choleric Man," 301;
his account of Garrick and Quin's first appearance in the same
play, 313.
Dance (stage name, Love), 291.
Dancer, Mrs. (afterwards Mrs. Barry and Mrs. Crawford), 277, 339,
344, 348.
Davies, Thomas, quoted--on Garrick, 71, 73;
on Mrs. Porter, 84;
on Garrick and Mrs. Cibber, 91;
on Quin, 168;
on Cibber's election to White's Club, 233;
on Garrick and Quin in the "Fair Penitent," 311.
Delane, actor, 27, 103;
his death, 119;
as King John, 61.
Delaney, Mrs., on Garrick, 77, 330;
on Barry, 338.
Dexter, actor, 321.
Digges, West, 196, 397;
as Norval, 189.
Dodsley, dramatist, 60;
his "Cleone," 243.
"Douglas," 189, 195, 196.
Dow, dramatist, 292.
Dramatists "in state," 157.
Dublin stage, the, 99, 248-52.
Dyer, actor, 118.
Edinburgh, the theatre in, 190.
Edwin, 397.
Elliston, 111.
Elmey, Mrs., 182.
Elrington, Thomas, a Dublin favourite, 101, 102;
his death, 103.
Farquhar and Mrs. Oldfield, 2.
Farren, Elizabeth, 397.
Farren, William, allusion to, 246.
"Fatal Curiosity," 59.
Fielding, 26, 59, 65, 156.
Fitzgerald, Percy, his opinion of Garrick, 333 _n._
Fleetwood, 86, 87.
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