Macready's Reminiscences, and Selections from His Diaries and Letters, Opseg 1Macmillan and Company, 1875 |
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... Covent Garden - Remarkable accident at Newcastle— Engagement at Bath 70 CHAPTER V. 1814-1815 . - Description of Bath in 1814 — Appearance in Romeo , & c . -Actors more sensitive to criticism than other artists - Proposed engagement with ...
... Covent Garden - Remarkable accident at Newcastle— Engagement at Bath 70 CHAPTER V. 1814-1815 . - Description of Bath in 1814 — Appearance in Romeo , & c . -Actors more sensitive to criticism than other artists - Proposed engagement with ...
Stranica vii
... Covent Garden made for five years — Mr . Plunkett in Richard III . - Performing at Wexford and Galway— Tour in North Wales - Snowdon - Meeting with brother at Liver- pool 115 CHAPTER VIII . 1816. - Risks and advantages of a London ...
... Covent Garden made for five years — Mr . Plunkett in Richard III . - Performing at Wexford and Galway— Tour in North Wales - Snowdon - Meeting with brother at Liver- pool 115 CHAPTER VIII . 1816. - Risks and advantages of a London ...
Stranica viii
... Covent Garden Theatre - First appearance in Richard III . - Complete success - Contemporary criticisms - Effect on the treasury of the theatre - Altered position - Account of Mrs. Siddons in Rowe's Tamerlane ' - First appearance in ...
... Covent Garden Theatre - First appearance in Richard III . - Complete success - Contemporary criticisms - Effect on the treasury of the theatre - Altered position - Account of Mrs. Siddons in Rowe's Tamerlane ' - First appearance in ...
Stranica ix
... Covent Garden engagement - Difficulties in the management - Cassius - Othello . 216 CHAPTER XV . -- 1822 ... Covent Garden season ' Huguenot ' -Wolsey in ' Henry VIII .'- ' King John ' - Miss Mit- ford's Julian ' - Shylock ...
... Covent Garden engagement - Difficulties in the management - Cassius - Othello . 216 CHAPTER XV . -- 1822 ... Covent Garden season ' Huguenot ' -Wolsey in ' Henry VIII .'- ' King John ' - Miss Mit- ford's Julian ' - Shylock ...
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... Covent Garden Theatre , and boasted of being the only manager out of the metropolis who could give the performance . Colman offered good terms , for his theatre in the Haymarket to three of the actors ; but my father stood on his ...
... Covent Garden Theatre , and boasted of being the only manager out of the metropolis who could give the performance . Colman offered good terms , for his theatre in the Haymarket to three of the actors ; but my father stood on his ...
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