"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3)Doran, Dr. (John)
History
"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3)
Doran, Dr. (John)
Actors -- Great Britain; Theater -- Great Britain -- History
Pope, Miss, 74, 304;
account of her career, 304-308;
her retirement, 304;
her original parts, 305;
Churchill's opinion of her, 305, 306;
her love affair with Holland, 306;
her last illness and death, 308.
Powell, George, and the _Spectator_, 294.
Powell, Mrs., actress, 58.
Powell, Thomas, a nervous author, 20.
Pritchard, Mrs., 172.
Proctor, B. W. (Barry Cornwall), 352, 357.
Prologues, 273.
Purvor, Grace (Mrs. Macklin), 67.
Pye, poet laureate, 2.
Quin, James, 47, 259, 263;
and "Fatal Retirement," 19;
antagonism with Macklin, 77;
his carelessness in costume, 253.
Rae, 372, 374.
Raymond, 373.
Reddish, Samuel, 115;
account of his career, 115-122;
his first appearance, 116;
his characters, 116;
as Edgar in "King Lear," 117;
as Posthumus, 117;
accidentally stabs Smith, 117;
his marriage, 118;
his loss of memory, 118;
his sad mental condition, 119;
his last appearance, 119;
in a lunatic asylum, 121;
his death, 122.
Reddish, Mrs., 118.
Reynolds, Frederic, 348.
Riot at Drury Lane, 33.
Riots, 51.
Robinson, Mrs. ("Perdita"), 108;
account of her career, 108-114;
her marriage, 108;
as Juliet, 109;
her excellences, 109;
as Perdita, 109;
her amour with the Prince of Wales (George IV.), 110, 111;
her death, 111;
her character, 111;
her taste in dressing, 112.
Romantic drama, 11.
Ross, David, 122;
his indolence, 122;
the first patentee in Edinburgh, 123;
as Barnwell, 124;
his death, 125.
Rowe, Nicholas, and his "Biter," 12.
Sainville, Monsieur and Madame, 101.
Satchell, Miss, as Desdemona, 211.
Saurin, French dramatist, 18, 23.
"School for Scandal," 5.
Settle, Elkanah, 14.
Shadwell, 287.
Sheil, Lalor, 352, 354.
Shenstone, 276.
Sheridan, R. B., 5, 27, 277;
and "The Castle Spectre," 12;
end of his connection with Drury Lane, 330.
Shuter, Edward, 61.
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