Produced by Chris Curnow, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Bold text is denoted by =equal signs=. The oe ligature has been replaced by 'oe' or 'OE'. Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. More detail can be found at the end of the book. NOTE.--_Three Hundred copies of this Edition printed on fine deckle-edge Royal 8vo paper. The fifty Portraits are given in duplicate, one on Japanese and the other on plate paper, as India proofs._ _Each of these copies is numbered._ _No._ ........ "Their Majesties' Servants" DR. DORAN, F.S.A. VOLUME THE THIRD Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON [Illustration: (Frontispiece, Mrs. Siddons)] "_THEIR MAJESTIES' SERVANTS_" ANNALS OF THE ENGLISH STAGE FROM THOMAS BETTERTON TO EDMUND KEAN BY DR. DORAN, F.S.A. _EDITED AND REVISED BY ROBERT W. LOWE_ With Fifty Copperplate Portraits and Eighty Wood Engravings _IN THREE VOLUMES_ VOLUME THE THIRD LONDON JOHN C. NIMMO 14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND MDCCCLXXXVIII CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE OF AUTHORS, AND PARTICULARLY OF CONDEMNED AUTHORS 1 CHAPTER II. THE AUDIENCES OF THE LAST HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 30 CHAPTER III. CHARLES MACKLIN 63 CHAPTER IV. A BEVY OF LADIES;--BUT CHIEFLY, MRS. BELLAMY, MISS FARREN, MRS. ABINGTON, AND "PERDITA" 84 CHAPTER V. A GROUP OF GENTLEMEN 115 CHAPTER VI. JOHN HENDERSON 144 CHAPTER VII. SARAH SIDDONS 153 CHAPTER VIII. JOHN KEMBLE 189 CHAPTER IX. GEORGE FREDERICK COOKE 223 CHAPTER X. MASTER BETTY 239 CHAPTER XI. STAGE COSTUME AND STAGE TRICKS 248 CHAPTER XII. PROLOGUE, EPILOGUE; DEDICATIONS AND BENEFITS 273 CHAPTER XIII. OLD STAGERS DEPARTING 301 CHAPTER XIV. NEW IDEAS; NEW THEATRES; NEW AUTHORS; AND THE NEW ACTORS 331 CHAPTER XV. EDMUND KEAN 358 CHAPTER XVI. EDMUND KEAN--CONTINUED 395 LIST OF COPPERPLATE PORTRAITS.