Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism, XVII-XX Centuries

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgements ix
• Introduction 1
• London Theatres in the 1660s 21
• Betterton's Benefit 44
• Thomas Betterton 46
• Garrick's First Performance in London 60
• Mr. Partridge Sees Garrick 63
• 'the Beggar's Opera': 18th Century 69
• Mrs. Siddons 84
• Others--And Mrs. Siddons 89
• 'the Beggar's Opera': 19th Century 93
• Kean as Richard the Third 96
• On Actors and Acting 101
• On the Artificial Comedy of The Last Century 112

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgements ix
• Introduction 1
• London Theatres in the 1660s 21
• Betterton's Benefit 44
• Thomas Betterton 46
• Garrick's First Performance in London 60
• Mr. Partridge Sees Garrick 63
• 'the Beggar's Opera': 18th Century 69
• Mrs. Siddons 84
• Others--And Mrs. Siddons 89
• 'the Beggar's Opera': 19th Century 93
• Kean as Richard the Third 96
• On Actors and Acting 101
• On the Artificial Comedy of The Last Century 112
• Phelps at Sadler's Wells 123
• At the Pantomime 130
• 'Caste' 132
• On Natural Acting 142
• Ellen Terry 154
• Ellen Terry 159
• Irving in Shakespeare 162
• 'Ghosts' 182
• 'Arms and the Man' 190
• 'trilby' 198
• Donkey Races 203
• Forbes Robertson's Hamlet 208
• 'trelawny of the "Wells"' 218
• F. R. Benson's Richard II 222
• Dan Leno 231
• The Wild Duck' 237
• 'the Playboy of the Western World'1 248
• P. D. Kenny 254
• Granville Barker's Production Of 'twelfth Night' 260
• 'the Pretenders' 264
• 'A Bill of Divorcement' 282
• The Search for the Masterpiece 290
• 'Peer Gynt' at the Old Vic 294
• Marie Lloyd 297
• 'the Way of the World' 302
• 'Hamlet' in Modern Dress 307
• A Creator 312
• Biblical 'tobias and the Angel' 316
• 'twelfth Night' at the Old Vic 321
• 'Murder in the Cathedral' 326
• 'As You like It' at the Old Vic 329
• Editor's Note 331
• Descriptive Index 333