Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II

Volume 1: Edmund Kean Early Critical Accounts of Kean: [John William Cole], The Talents of Edmund Kean Delineated (1817); John Finlay, Miscellanies (1835). Kean's Biographers on Kean in Shakespeare: Barry Waller Procter (Barry Corwall), The Life of Edmund Kean (1835); Frederick Hawkins, The Life of Edmund Kean (1869). Actors on Kean: Michael Kelly, Reminiscences (1826); Julian Charles Young, A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, Tragedian (1871); William Macready, Macready's Reminiscences, ed. Sir Frederick Pollock (1875); Joe Cowell, Thirty Years Passed Among the Players in England and America (1845); Walter Donaldson, Fifty Years of Green-Room Gossip (1881); George Vandenhoff, Dramatic Reminiscences: An Actor's Notebook (1865); Fanny Kemble, Records of a Girlhood (1880); Fanny Kemble, Journal of a Residence in America (1835); Sir Theodore Martin, Helena Faucit (Lady Martin) (1900). Dramatists on Kean: Thomas Dibdin, Reminiscences (1827); Frederick Reynolds, The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds (1826); Thomas Colley Grattan, Beaten Paths and Those Who Trod Them (1862). Recollections of Kean in Theatrical Memoirs: Alfred Bunn, The Stage Both Before and Behind the Curtain (1840); George Raymond, The Life and Enterprises of Robert William Elliston, Comedian (1857); James Boaden, Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble (1825); John W Cole, The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean (1859); Edward Stirling, Old Drury Lane: Fifty Years' Recollections of Author, Actor and Manager (1881). Diarists, Literary and Artistic Figures on Kean: Thomas Moore, Life of Lord Byron with his Journals and Letters (1854); Thomas Moore, Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence, ed. Lord John Russell (1853-6); Henry Nelson Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836); Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, ed. Thomas Sadler (1869); The London Theatre 1811-1866: Selections from the Diary of Henry Crabb Robinson, ed. Eluned Brown (1966); Mary and Charles Cowden Clarke, Recollections of Writers (1878); Joseph Farington, The Farington Diaries (1922-8); Pierre M Irving, The Works of Washington Irving ([1900?]); Charles Robert Leslie, Autobiographical Recollections (1860); Mrs Richard Trench, The Remains of the Late Mrs Richard Trench (1862); Hester L Thrale, Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale), ed. Abraham Hayward (1861); Mary Berry, Extracts from the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry, 1783 to 1852, ed. Lady T Lewis (1866). North American Perspectives: Richard Henry Dana, The Idle Man (1821-2); William W Clapp Jnr, A Record of the Boston Stage (1853); Joe Cowell, Thirty Years Passed Among the Players in England and America (1845). Kean's Acting: John Genest, Some Account of the English Stage (1832); John Taylor, Records of My Life (1833); William Robson, The Old Play-Goer (1846); George Henry Lewes, On Actors and the Art of Acting (1875). Kean Close-Up: James Winston, Drury Lane Journal: Selections from James Winston's Diaries 1819-1827, ed. Alfred L Nelson and Gilbert B Cross (1974); Oxberry's Dramatic Biography and Histrionic Anecdotes (1825). Newspaper and Journal Reviews: William Hazlitt - William Hazlitt, A View of the English Stage (1818); Examiner, 7 January 1816; The Times, 21 October 1817; London Magazine (January 1820); London Magazine (February 1820). Leigh Hunt - Examiner, 26 February 1815; Examiner, 30 April 1820; Dramatic Essays by Leigh Hunt, ed. William Archer and Robert W Lowe (1894). John Keats, in Champion, 21 December 1817; Thomas Noon Talfourd, in New Monthly Magazine (March 1831); Miscellaneous Criticism - Morning Post, 27 January 1814; Examiner, 27 February 1814; Examiner, 18 September 1814; Morning Herald, 14 March 1814; Morning Herald, 9 May 1814; Theatrical Inquisitor (February 1814); Theatrical Inquisitor (October 1816); Theatrical Inquisitor (October 1817); Theatrical Inquisitor (October 1818); Theatrical Inquisitor (January 1820); Theatrical Inquisitor (May 1820); London Magazine (January 1823). Decline, Last Appearance and Obituaries: Dr John Doran, 'Their Majesties Servants' or Annals of the English Stage (1897); James H Hackett, in New York Mirror, 22 February 1834; New Monthly Magazine (June 1833). Volume 2: Sarah Siddons Poems and Poetic Tributes: Thomas Sedgwick Whalley, Verses Addressed to Mrs. Siddons, on Her Being Engaged at the Theatre-Royal (1782); William Russell, The 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); [James Henry Leigh], 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); [Joseph Haselwood], The 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 Ann Kemble, Record of a Girlhood (1821); Oswald G Knapp (ed.), An Artist's Love Story (1905). Periodicals: 'Drury-Lane Theatre', Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, 3 February 1785; 'The Stage', Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 14 February 1785; 'Mrs. Siddons', Morning Chronicle, 1 July 1812. Volume 3: Harriet Smithson Early Reviews: Oxberry's Dramatic Biography and Histrionic Anecdotes, ed. C E Oxberry (1825-6); The Times, 21 January 1818; Bell's Weekly Messenger, 18 November 1821; The Times, 1 February 1825. Reception in Paris: Walter Donaldson, Fifty Years of Green-Room Gossip, or Recollections of an Actor ([1881]); Etienne-Jean Delecluze, Journal de Delecluze, 1824-1828, ed. R Baschet ([1948]), trans. Peter Raby; Charles Magnin, Causeries et meditations historiques et litteraires (1843), trans. Peter Raby; [Hector Berlioz], 'Tragic One-Act Pantomime by M. Henri, Music by M. Pugni', Gazette Musicale, 7 December 1834, trans. Peter Raby; Alexandre Dumas, The Memoirs of Alexandre Dumas, pere, trans. A F Davidson (1891); Alexandre Dumas, Impressions de Voyage, Suisse (1851), trans. Peter Raby; F-J Moreau, Souvenirs du theatre anglais a Paris (1827); Francois Guizot, Shakespeare and His Times (1852); Harriet (Cavendish) Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville, Letters of Harriet, Countess of Granville, 1810-1894, ed. F Leveson-Gower (1894); Frances Anne Kemble, Record of a Girlhood (1878); Hector Berlioz, Autobiography of Hector Berlioz, trans. R Holmes and E Holmes (1884). The Established Actress: Athenaeum (23 April 1828); Athenaeum (28 May 1828); William C Macready, Reminiscences, ed. F Pollock (1875); New Monthly Magazine (June 1828); Dramatic Magazine, 11 May 1829; Athenaeum (13 May 1829); Examiner, 17 May 1829; Examiner, 24 May 1829; New Monthly Magazine, 1 June 1829; Examiner, 14 June 1829; New Monthly Magazine, 1 July 1829; Athenaeum (29 May 1830); Edward Lockspeiser, 'Unpublished Letters of Harriet Smithson and Berlioz', Musical Times, December 1938; Henry Barton Baker, The London Stage (1904); Letter from Harriet Smithson to William Kenneth (1831); Court Magazine (1833); Hector Berlioz, Autobiography of Hector Berlioz, trans. R Holmes and E Holmes. Final Years and Retrospective: Mrs Cornwall Baron Wilson, Our Actresses (1844); George A Osborne, 'Berlioz', Proceedings of the Musical Association (3 February 1879); E P Dutton Cook, 'Miss Smithson', Gentleman's Magazine (June 1879); Hector Berlioz, Autobiography of Hector Berlioz; Images of Smithson: F-J Moreau, Souvenirs du theatre anglais a Paris (1827).