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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 2: Edmund Kean, Sarah Siddons and Harriet Smithson by Their Contemporaries book cover

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 2 Edmund Kean, Sarah Siddons and Harriet Smithson by Their Contemporaries

By Gail Marshall, Tetsuo Kishi, Jim Davis, Lisa Freeman, Peter Raby Copyright 2009
    486 Pages
    by Routledge

    During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and performances of celebrated entertainers. This series features actors who were significant in their development of new ways of performing Shakespeare.

    LIVES OF SHAKESPEARIAN ACTORS II VOLUME 2: SARAH SIDDONS Introduction; Poems and Poetic Tributes; Thomas Sedgwick Whalley, Verses Addressed to Mrs. Siddons, on Her Being Engaged at the Theatre-Royal (1782) William Russell, Th e Tragic Muse: A Poem Addressed to Mrs. Siddons (1783) The Theatrical Portrait, a Poem, on the Celebrated Mrs. Siddons (1783) Thomas Young, The Siddoniad: A Characteristical and Critical Poem (1784) The New Rosciad in the Manner of Churchill (1787) Joanna Baillie, ‘To Mrs. Siddons’, in Joanna Baillie (ed.), A Collection of Poems (1823) Biographies and Stage Histories Thomas Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies (1785) Th e Secret History of the Green Room (1795) James Boaden, Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble (1825)’ James Boaden, Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons (1827) James Boaden, Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald (1833) Thomas Campbell, Life of Mrs. Siddons (1834) Percy Fitzgerald, The Kembles (1871) Essays and Essayists; The Beauties of Mrs. Siddons (1786) Edwin’s Pills to Purge Melancholy (1788) James Ballantyne, Dramatic Characters of Mrs. Siddons (1812) William Hazlitt, A View of the English Stage (1821) George Joseph Bell, ‘Mrs. Siddons as Lady Macbeth’, Nineteenth Century (1878) Letters, Diaries and Memoirs Catherine Galindo, Mrs. Galindo’s Letter to Mrs. Siddons (1809) Frances Burney, Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay (1842–6) Frances Anne Kemble, Record of a Girlhood (1878) Oswald G. Knapp (ed.), An Artist’s Love Story (1905) Newspaper Articles Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, 3 February 1785 Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 14 February 1785 Morning Chronicle, 1 July 1812

    Biography

    Series Editor: Gail Marshall, Consulting Editor: Tetsuo Kishi, Volume Editors: Jim Davis (Edmund Kean), Lisa A. Freeman (Sarah Siddons), Peter Raby (Harriet Smithson).

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