Index of plays

General index

Abbey Theatre (Dublin) 234, 236

A’Beckett, Gilbert 202

Abington, Frances 159

Absalom and Achitophel (John Dryden) 22, 269n.10

Achurch, Janet 258

Act of Settlement (1701) 69, 83, 276n.12

Act of Union with Ireland (1800) 167

Act of Union with Scotland (1707) 69, 78, 136

‘Actor, The’ (Robert Lloyd) 151, 152

Actor-Manager, The (Leonard Merrick) 259

actor-managers 258–9, 261–8

Actor’s Art, The (Gustave Garcia) 259

Actors’ Company (1695) 18–19, 29, 63, 78

actors’ status 61–4, 103–7, 152–63, 241–3, 258–62

actresses (Restoration) 11, 53–7

Adam Bede (George Eliot) 221

Addison, Joseph 70–1, 73–5, 77, 89, 102, 108, 151, 271n.6

Adelphi Theatre (London) 172, 182, 198, 211, 240

afterpieces 99–101, 122, 125, 147

Ainley, Henry 58

Albert, Prince 228–9, 242

Alexander, George 256, 261–2

Allen, Grant 236–7

Almack’s 171

American Copyright Bill (1891) n:240

American Declaration of Independence 116, 118

Amherst, J. H. 202

Anderson, James 213

Angel in the House, The (Coventry Patmore) 236

Anne (last Stuart monarch) 4, 28, 69, 72, 76, 91

Apology for His Life, An (Colley Cibber) 41, 58, 62–3, 104

Aram, Eugene 247

Archer, William 232

Arne, Thomas 118

Arnold, Matthew 223, 226

Ashbury, Joseph 79, 112

Astley, Philip 130–1

Astley’s Amphitheatre 130, 202, 213

At Homes (Charles Mathews the Elder) 215

audiences 47–8, 49–56, 103–4, 256

Auditorium Theatre (Chicago) 232

Austen, Jane 32, 278n.1

Author, Author (David Lodge) 282n.2

Ayckbourn, Alan 31, 112

Bab Ballads (W. S. Gilbert) 254

Baillie, Joanna 194–6

Baker, Sarah 211–12

Balfe, Michael 235

ballad opera 78, 82

Bancroft, Squire 258

Bank of England 4, 48

Banks, John 61

Bannister, John (actor) 162, 163, 213

Barham, R. H. 201

Barker, Granville 268

Barrie, J. M. 257

Barry, Elizabeth 56, 61–3, 90,n:107

Bartholomew Fair 110, 159, 273n.5

Bastille, storming of 130, 167, 168, 274n.12

Bath 80, 111, 191

Bayley, Thomas Haynes 202–3

Beard, John 122

Beardsley, Aubrey 263

Beaumont and Fletcher 11, 57

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell 196

Behn, Aphra 7, 29, 30, 46, 54, 97

benefit system for actors 106–7

Berne Convention (1886) 240

Bernhardt, Sarah 264

Betterton, Thomas 16–19, 22, 23, 58–9, 60–1, 63, 64, 78, 96, 150

Betty, William Henry West (‘Master’) 202

Bickerstaff, Isaac 118, 122, 134, 144, 211

Biographia Dramatica 108

Birmingham 80, 131

Black Book, or, Corruption Unmasked!, The (John Wade) 170, 276n.3

Bleak House (Charles Dickens) 228

Blenheim, Battle of (1704) 29, 69, 96

Boaden, James 194

Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount 75, 82

Booth, Barton 75, 76, 77, 105, 107, 108, 111, 150

Boston (Massachusetts) 119, 209

Boston Tea Party 116, 118, 273n.4

Boswell, James 125, 273n.9

‘bottom’ 126, 181

Boucicault, Dion 189, 190–2, 224, 227, 230, 235–6, 240, 265

Boutell, Elizabeth 56–7, 61

box office 12, 13, 16

Boy’s Own Paper, The 223

Bracegirdle, Anne 41, 56, 62–4, 270n.11

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth 246

Bradley, A. C. 266

Bradshaw, Lucretia 105

Brecht, Bertolt 254

breeches parts 54, 63

Brighton 171, 191

Bristol 80, 111, 168

Britannia Theatre (Hoxton) 182, 185

Brodie, William 249, 283n.13

Brooke, Henry 136, 274n.4

Brookfield, Charles 255, 284n.20

Browning, Robert 193, 196, 212, 213, 279n.14

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 224, 281n.7

Buckingham, Duke of 26, 27, 43, 51, 52, 270n.1

Buckstone, John Baldwin 199, 204

Bullock, Christopher 76, 101, 110

Bulwer, Edward (later Bulwer-Lytton and Lord Lytton) 184, 189–90, 191, 193, 196–7, 212, 213, 215, 218, 241, 245, 248, 277n.19

Bulwer, John 59

Bunker Hill, Battle of 116, 119, 120

Bunn, Alfred 185

Bunyan, John 133

Burgoyne, John 116, 118–21, 126, 142

Burke, Edmund 168, 205

burlesque 201

Bute, Earl of 116, 135–6, 144

Byrom, John 90

Byron, George, Lord 171, 194, 198, 209–10

Byron, H. J. 243

Byronic hero 210, 280n.9

Caleb Williams (William Godwin) 188

Campbell, Mrs Patrick 261, 263–4

Canterbury 132, 212

Capon, William 194

‘Captain Swing’ 175–8

Carlile, Richard 175, 277n.10

Caroline, Queen (wife of George II) 83, 84, 85–7

Caroline, Queen (wife of George IV) 167, 185, 276n.12

Carroll, Lewis 201

Castle of Otranto, The (Horace Walpole) 197

Castlemaine, Lady see Villiers, Barbara

castrati 76

Catholic Emancipation 167, 169, 185

Cawnpore massacre 230

Centlivre, Susanna 81, 97–8, 100, 272n.9

Chang and Eng (Siamese twins) 202

changeable scenery (Restoration) 11–13

Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (Earl of Shaftesbury) 102

Characters of Shakespear’s Plays (William Hazlitt) 206, 208–9

Charles I 6, 7–8, 12, 14, 111

Charles II 3–11, 13–14, 16–17, 18, 20, 21, 23–5, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32–5, 40, 44, 53–4, 56, 88, 106, 111, 252

Charles Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) 45, 116, 117

Charlotte, Queen (wife of George III) 171

Chartism 222, 228

Chicago 232, 235

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (George, Lord Byron) 210

Christian Hero, The (Richard Steele) 71, 73

Churchill, Charles (author of The Rosciad) 118, 149, 151, 153, 158

Cibber, Colley 19, 41, 54, 58, 64, 66, 71, 76, 78, 81, 95–7, 100, 103–4, 105, 107, 108, 147, 191, 209, 270n.8

Cibber, Susannah 157, 158, 163

Cibber, Theophilus 77, 158

City, the 48, 79, 99, 130

City of London Theatre 182

City Theatre (Cripplegate) 182

Clarendon, Douglas Hyde, Earl of 3, 26, 29

Cleveland, Duchess of see Barbara Villiers

Clifford, Henry 181

Clive, Kitty 100, 159, 162

Clive, Robert 116, 119

Cloister and the Hearth, The (Charles Reade) 240

closure of theatres (1642) 3, 6

Coalbrookdale by Night (Philippe de Loutherbourg) 155

Cobbett, William 170, 178–81, 185, 276n.2

Coburg theatre (later the Old Vic) 181, 182, 202

Cockpit (Drury Lane) 9, 29, 54

coffee-houses 13, 20, 77, 81

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 194, 198, 208, 210, 278n.9

Collier, Jeremy 30, 70, 95

Collier, John Payne 173

Colman, George (the Elder) 123, 125, 126, 128, 130, 134, 141, 142–3, 147, 153, 162, 163

Colman, George (the Younger) 128, 141, 163, 168, 173, 184, 186, 187–9, 213, 235

Columella (Richard Graves) 131

Combination Acts, repeal of 167, 172

comedy (1660–1700) 31–42

   (1700–37) 95–9

   (1737–89) 137–48

Common Sense 85–7

Congreve, William 18, 19, 30, 41, 46, 58, 60, 63, 144, 162, 163, 184

Conquest, George 199

conversation 34–7, 57–8

Cook, Thomas (travel agent) 222, 243, 283n.7

Cooke, George Frederick 183, 206

Cooke, Thomas Potter 198–9

Cooper, James Fenimore 198

Copley, John Singleton 154

Copyright Act (1709) 69, 97

Corey, Katherine 56

Corneille, Pierre 20, 26, 43

Corn Laws 169, 170, 222, 228, 233

Corsair, The (George, Lord Byron) 210

Corsica 116, 125

‘country’, the 37–9, 48

Court Theatre (London) 254, 256

Courtenay, Tom 49

Covent Garden (Theatre Royal) 76, 77, 78, 79, 88, 104, 109, 122–3, 126, 127, 128, 130, 135, 139, 144, 146, 149, 153, 159, 160, 181, 182, 184, 185, 186, 190, 192, 193, 196, 199, 201, 206, 211, 212, 215, 265

Cowley, Hannah 134, 142, 143, 144, 147

Coxheath Military Camp 116, 120

Coyne, Joseph Stirling 254

Crabbe, George 204

Craftsman, The 82

Craig, Edith 237

Cremorne Gardens 232

Criterion Theatre 258, 261

Cromwell, Oliver 3, 8, 9

Crowne, John 32, 33

Crystal Palace 228–9

Culloden, Battle of 116, 117

Culture and Anarchy (Matthew Arnold) 223

Cumberland, Duke of (‘Butcher’) 117

Cumberland, Richard 134, 139–40, 143, 144, 145, 150, 274n.10, 274n.9, 275n.12

Currer, Elizabeth 33–4, 46

Daly, Augustin 227

Damer, Anne (sculptor) 143

Damer, John (gambler and suicide) 137

Dance, James (aka James Love) 131

Darwin, Charles 221, 222

Davenant, Charles 16, 18

Davenant, William 5, 6, 7–10, 16, 21, 54–60

Davis, Moll 24

Death of Major Peirson, The (John Singleton Copley) 154

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Edward Gibbon) 118

dedications of plays 25–9, 33

Defoe, Daniel 92

Delhi durbar (1877) 231

Dennis, John 12

Deserted Village, The (Oliver Goldsmith) 148

Dettingen, Battle of 116, 273n.3

Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of 137, 145, 162

Devonshire House Circle 137

de Wilde, Samuel (painter) 157

Dibdin, Charles 122, 211, 213

Dickens, Charles 94, 95, 175, 188, 198, 212, 213, 215, 221, 223, 228, 238, 240, 246, 249, 252

Dick’s (publisher of plays) 240

Diderot, Denis 151, 275n.3

Dillon, Charles 194

Divorce Act (1857) 222

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) 249

Doggett, Thomas 64, 76, 101, 107, 108, 110, 111, 159

Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of 14, 18, 27, 52

Dorset Garden (playhouse) 16, 17, 21, 28, 29

Downes, John 18, 21, 22, 24, 46, 109

Dramatic Copyright Act (1833) 167, 215

Dream of Eugene Aram, The (Thomas Hood) 248

Drury Lane (Theatre Royal) 13, 14–15, 16, 17, 19, 23, 29, 38, 49, 71–2, 74, 75, 76, 77–8, 79, 84, 88, 92–3, 95, 96, 99, 100, 104, 105, 107, 109, 117, 120, 122, 123, 124–7, 128, 131, 136, 137, 139, 143, 144, 149, 153, 175, 178, 182–3, 184, 194, 197, 199, 201, 206, 207, 209, 210, 212, 227, 265, 267

Dryden, John 5, 12, 17, 21, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30, 35, 39, 40, 43–4, 46, 47, 48, 56, 57, 58, 60, 66, 270n.8

Dublin 79, 112, 199, 235–6

Ducrow, Andrew 202

Duke’s Company 5, 8, 11–17, 21, 28, 45, 46, 64, 66

Dumas père, Alexandre 210

du Maurier, George (Trilby) 233

du Maurier, Gerald 262

Dunciad, The (Alexander Pope) 78, 153

Dunning, John (MP) 116, 144

Dupont, Gainsborough (painter) 157

Duse, Eleonora 264

Earl’s Court 222, 232

East India Company 77, 119, 230, 273n.4

Eastlake, Charles (painter) 204

East Lynne (Mrs Henry Wood) 232, 237, 253

Eccles, John (composer) 23

Edinburgh 131, 135

Education Act (1870) 222

Edward VII 222, 233, 246, 258

Egan, Pierce 171–2

Eliot, George 221, 252

Elizabethan Stage Society 268

Elliot, Charles (bookseller) 101, 272n.10

Elliston, Robert 184

Emery, John 215

Emery, Sam 249

Empire of India exhibition 222, 232

Empress theatre (London) 232

English National Opera 22

Enoch Arden (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) 236

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, An (William Godwin) 168

epilogues 56, 84, 96, 157

equestrian drama 130, 202

Erskine, James (MP) 79

Essay on Acting (David Garrick) 150

Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections (Francis Hutcheson) 150

Estcourt, Richard 64

Etherege, Sir George 27, 30, 32, 35–7, 46–7, 61, 64, 270n.3

Eugene Aram (Edward Bulwer) 248

Euston (railway station) 227

Evelyn, John 12, 14, 26, 35, 60

Examiner, The 206, 218

Exclusion Bill 3, 4

Exclusion Crisis 17, 29, 34

Excise Bill (1733) 69, 85

extravaganza 201

Fable of the Bees, The (Bernard Mandeville) 77

fairs see Bartholomew Fair, Southwark Fair, Stourbridge Fair 78, 115, 159

Falconer, Edmund 235

farce 100, 134, 254

Farquhar, George 30, 38–9, 79, 105, 108, 159, 184

Farren, Elizabeth 119, 160–2

Faucit, Helen 242

Fawcett, John 215

Fenians 222, 233–4, 235

Fenton, Lavinia 105–6

Festival of the Golden Rump 87

fêtes champêtres 120, 125, 153

Fielding, Henry 82, 84–8, 89, 90, 93, 94, 99, 100

Fitzball, Edward 198, 204

Fitzgerald, Edward 221

Fitzherbert, Mrs 162, 276n.12

Fleet Prison 141

Fleet weddings 132, 141, 275n.14

Fleetwood, Charles 124, 276n.9

Folkes, Martin 105

Foote, Samuel 64, 101, 127, 132, 134, 139, 213, 223

Forbes-Robertson, Johnston 58, 261, 264

Forster, John 212, 213

Fortune Theatre 268

Fox, Charles James 120, 137, 171, 174, 273n.6

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) 198

Frederick, Prince of Wales 69, 83–4, 85, 132

Freemasons 112, 258

French Revolution 118, 120, 168–70, 173

French’s (acting editions) 240

Frith, William (painter) 226, 233

Furnivall, F. J. 268, 285n.10

Fuseli, Henry (painter) 207

Gaiety Theatre (London) 243, 258

Gainsborough, Thomas 153

Galsworthy, John 175

gambling 97, 124, 126, 137, 160, 273n.6

Gambon, Michael 58

Garcia, Gustave 259

Garrick, David 43, 95, 98, 101, 107, 108, 120, 122, 123, 124–6, 127, 135–6, 137, 139, 142–3, 146–7, 149–60, 162, 163, 199, 207, 210, 276n.10

Garrick Club 157

Garrick Theatre (Whitechapel) 182

Gay, John 76, 78, 82, 92, 99–100

Gentlewoman’s Companion (Hannah Woolley) 32, 33

George I 69, 76, 77, 81, 83, 100

George II 69, 83, 84, 85–7, 106, 116, 135

George III 116, 122, 127, 135, 136, 144, 145, 153, 154, 162, 167, 168, 171, 174, 185, 276n.12

George IV 162, 167, 171, 181, 185, 202, 276n.12

Géricault, Théodore (painter) 204

Gibbon, Edward 118

Gibbons’s Tennis Court 12, 29

Gielgud, John 58

Giffard, Henry 87, 88

Gilbert and Sullivan 118, 233, 254, 256

Gilbert, W. S. 118, 201, 233, 238, 240, 252, 254–5, 256

Gillray, James 171

Gladstone, William 222, 229, 234, 236

Godwin, Edward 236

Godwin, William 168, 169, 188

Goldoni, Carlo 186

Goldsmith, Oliver 118, 123, 134, 139, 140, 145, 147–8

Gooch, Daniel 225, 281n.8

Goodman’s Fields Playhouse 69, 79, 87, 88, 104, 124, 140

Gordon Riots 116, 160

Graves, Richard 131

Great Exhibition (1851) 222, 228–9, 232

Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) 94, 95

Great Fire of London (1666) 3, 14

Great Plague in London (1665) 3, 14

Great Western Railway 225–6

Grecian theatre (London) 199

Gregory, Lady Augusta 234

Grein, J. T. 256

Gretna Green 142, 275n.16

Greville, Fulke (Lord Brooke) 7

Grieve family of scene designers 192

Grimaldi, Joseph 199–201

‘Grundy, Mrs’ 234, 278n.2

Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift) 82

Gunpowder Plot (1605) 11

Gwyn, Nell 18, 24, 33, 34, 39, 54, 55, 56, 61

half-and-half drama, 1660–1700 46

Haines, Joseph 55, 56, 110, 159

Halifax, Earl of (Charles Montagu) 63, 270n.11

Hallam, Thomas 124

Hamilton, Lady Elizabeth (wife of 12th Earl of Derby) 120, 160

Handel, George Frederick 23, 77, 82, 83, 157

Hardwicke, Philip 116, 141–2

Hardy, Thomas 241

Hare, John 259

Harlequin 47, 75, 158, 199

Harlot’s Progress, A (William Hogarth) 92

Harper, John 110

Harris, Henry 16

Harris, Thomas 123, 182, 215

Hart, Charles 11, 17, 26, 35, 39, 52, 55, 61

Harvey, Elizabeth, Lady 26–7, 56

Hastings, Warren 116, 118, 120

Hawtrey, Charles 255

Hayman, Francis 153, 154

Haymarket, Little Theatre 78, 79, 84, 85, 88, 100, 127–8, 141, 163, 168, 185, 188, 190, 213, 218, 221, 243, 251, 256, 267

Hazlitt, William 140, 193, 205, 206, 207, 208–9, 218, 223, 226

Henderson, John 152

Henrietta Maria, Queen (wife of Charles I) 6, 8

Herbert, Sir Henry (Master of the Revels) 6, 111, 273n.7

Hill, Aaron 153

Hill, Captain Richard (killer of William Mountfort) 63

Hippisley, John 111

History of the Jews, A (Josephus) 149

Hoadly, Benjamin 146–7

Hoadly, Bishop Benjamin 146, 275n.21

Hoadly, John 146–7

Hobbes, Thomas 36, 39, 43, 77, 94

Hogarth, William 92–3, 94, 105, 110, 121, 142, 153

Holborn Theatre Royal 243, 258

Holcroft, Thomas 133, 140, 159, 163, 169, 183, 186–7, 197

Home, John 112, 135–6

Hood, Thomas 243, 248

Howard, Sir Robert 12, 14, 29

Hume, David 274n.3

Hunt, Leigh 206, 208, 218

Hurd, Richard 108

Hyde, Douglas 234

Hyde Park 13, 172, 229

Ibsen, Henrik 238, 246–7, 250, 253, 254, 258, 262

Idylls of the King (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) 221

illegitimate drama 78, 99–100, 183–4

Illustrated London News 218

Inchbald, Elizabeth 134, 140, 147, 186, 188, 278n.1

Independent Theatre 253, 256

India 229–32

Ingoldsby Legends (R. H. Barham) 201

Interregnum 11, 29

Ireland 167, 222, 233–6

Irish Literary Theatre 234, 235

Irish potato famine 222, 233

Irish Republican Brotherhood 222, 233

Irving, Henry 20, 194, 213, 248–50, 256, 258, 259, 261, 262–3, 266, 268

Jacobitism 45, 69, 76, 116, 135

Jacob’s Well Playhouse, Bristol 111

James II 4, 17, 25, 26, 28, 34, 37, 40, 44, 69, 72, 76

James, Henry 241, 282n.2

Jefferson, Thomas 132

Jerrold, Douglas 118, 175–8, 185, 198–9, 201, 204

‘John Bull’ 131, 182, 188

Johnson, Samuel 125, 146, 153, 274n.4

Jonathan Wild the Great (Henry Fielding) 82

Jones, Henry Arthur 192, 227, 232, 234, 237–8, 244, 250–2, 253, 254, 261

Jonson, Ben 11, 27, 39, 137, 158

Jordan, Dorothy 122, 132, 162, 213

Josephs, Fanny 258, 284n.1

Journal to Stella (Jonathan Swift) 106

Julie; ou La Nouvelle Héloise (Jean Jacques Rousseau) 138

Junius, Letters of 116, 144

Karim, Abdul 231

Kean, Charles 194, 265–6, 268

Kean, Edmund 108, 171, 194, 205, 206–10, 265, 279n.10

Keats, John 194, 279n.10

Kelly, Hugh 139, 190

Kemble, Charles 132, 265

Kemble, Fanny 266

Kemble, John Philip 126, 132, 136, 139, 140, 162, 163, 181–2, 189, 194, 196, 206–7, 208–9, 210–11, 265

Kemble, Stephen 132

Kendal, Madge 263–4

Kéroualle, Louise de 28–9, 33

Killigrew, Charles 15, 17–18

Killigrew, Thomas 5, 6–7, 9–10, 17, 19, 54–6

King, Gregory (statistician) 48

King, Thomas 126, 128

King’s Company 5, 7, 11–17, 19, 27, 29, 39, 43, 46, 55

Kingston, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of 128

Kipling, Rudyard 262

Kiralfy, Imre 232

Kneller, Sir Godfrey 66

Knipp, Elizabeth 55–6

Knowles, James Sheridan 192–3, 196, 212, 252, 278n.7

Kotzebue, August von 189, 278n.1

Kynaston, Edward 54, 55

Lacy, James 125, 126, 128

Lacy, John 17, 43

Lacy’s (acting editions) 240

Lady Audley’s Secret (Mary Elizabeth Braddon) 246

‘Lady Clara Vere de Vere’ (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) 242

Lamb, Charles 184, 194, 208

Lane, Samuel 185

Langhans, Edward 53

Lawrence, Thomas (painter) 162, 206

Lear, Edward 201

Lee, Mary 63

Lee, Nathaniel 12, 21, 32, 33, 45, 58, 270n.8

legitimate drama 78, 99, 183–4

Leigh, Anthony 46, 66

Leno, Dan 199

Lessingham, Jane 123

Letters Patent 10, 18, 53–4, 78, 84, 126, 182–4

Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes) 36, 77

Lewes, George Henry 207, 252

Lewis, Leopold 248

Lewis, Matthew ‘Monk’ 198

Lewis, William (‘Gentleman’) 215–18

Licensing Act (1737) 69, 83, 87–8, 109, 111, 115, 124–5, 128

Life in London (Pierce Egan) 171–2

Lillo, George 77–8, 89, 93–4, 99, 137

Lincoln’s Inn Fields (playhouse) 16, 18, 29, 75–7, 79, 82, 99, 109

Linley, Thomas (composer) 126

Lisle’s Tennis Court 12, 29

Liston, John 198, 218

Litton, Marie 258

Lives of the Engineers (Samuel Smiles) 224

Lives of the Poets (Samuel Johnson) 30

Lloyd, Robert (‘The Actor’) 151, 152

Lloyds of London 48

Locke, John 74

Locke, Matthew 20–1

Lodge, David 282n.2

Lombard Street (in the City) 99

London 3, 20, 38, 69, 78–88, 132, 171–3

London Academy of Music (and Dramatic Art) 259

London Spy, The (Ned Ward) 110, 171

Louis XVI (King of France) 116, 144

Loutherbourg, Philippe de 120, 121, 154–7

Lucknow (siege and relief of) 230

luxury goods 77

Lyceum Theatre (London) 20, 182, 185, 212, 248, 250, 251, 256, 258, 261, 262, 266

Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth and Coleridge) 187

Lyttelton, Lord 135, 152

Mackenzie, Henry 138

Macklin, Charles 124–5, 127, 149, 152

Macready, William Charles 190, 193, 194, 196–7, 209, 212–13, 242, 265, 266, 279n.14

Maeterlinck, Maurice 263

Mainwaring, Arthur (Anne Oldfield’s lover) 76, 105

Malone, Edmond 107

Malthus, Thomas 178, 277n.12

Man of Feeling, The (Henry Mackenzie) 138

Manchester 80, 132, 170, 264, 284n.6

Manchester Martyrs 233

Mandeville, Bernard 77

Margate 264, 284n.6

Marlborough, 1st Duke of 69, 75, 96, 105, 184, 236

Marlowe, Christopher 184, 236

marriage 39–42, 121, 141–3, 160–2, 242–6

Marriage Act (1754) 116, 141–2

Marriage-à-la-Mode (William Hogarth) 121, 142

Married Women’s Property Act (1881) 222, 238

Marshall, Rebecca 19, 55, 56–7, 61

Mary II 4, 22, 34, 41, 48, 69, 72, 76, 91

Marylebone Gardens 55

Mathews, Charles (the Elder) 215

Mathews, Charles James (the Younger) 190, 191, 192, 212, 215, 218, 240, 262

Maurice, F. D. 251

Meisel, Martin 218

Mellon, Harriet 242

melodrama 157, 189, 197–9, 222–4, 235, 236

Meredith, George 221

Methodism 127, 133, 137, 159, 223–4, 225, 228, 274n.16, 281n.3

Metropolitan Line 227, 281n.10

Mill, John Stuart 221, 282n.19

Millais, John Everett 204, 280n.2

Miller, Joe 255, 284n.19

Mills, John 107

Ministry of All the Talents 167, 185

Minor Theatres Act (1751) 128

Mohun, Lord (duellist) 63

Mohun, Michael 11, 17, 54–5, 270n.8

Molière 16, 53, 76, 81, 95, 137

Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) 92

Monck, George 3, 4–5, 20, 29

Moncrieff, William 172, 181, 183–4, 185, 201, 248

Monmouth, Duke of 4, 24, 28

Montez, Lola 162, 163, 276n.14

Monthly Mirror, The 153

Moore, Edward 136–7

Morton, John Maddison 254

Morton, Thomas 186, 189

Mother Bennett (bawd) 25–6

Mountfort, Susannah 54

Mountfort, William 63, 66

Mulgrave, Earl of 28, 52, 108

Munden, Joseph 218

Murphy, Arthur 118–21, 128, 134, 147, 162, 163

Murray, Gilbert 232

music in the theatre 19, 23, 118, 120, 133

mutinies (Spithead and the Nore) 170, 175

nabobs 127, 139, 273n.10

Nana Sahib 230, 282n.18

Nash, Beau 80

‘nature’/natural acting 58

Nelson, Horatio 116, 175

Newcastle 80, 132

Newgate Prison 82, 269n.4

New Shakespeare Society 268

New theatre (later the Albery) 258

Newton, Sir Isaac 74

Nisbet, Louisa 242

Nokes, James 64–6, 159

North Briton, The 116, 144

Norwich 79, 80, 111, 132

novelty acts 122, 124

Oates, Titus 3, 17, 34, 44, 269n.4

O’Brien, William 233

Observations sur Garrick (Denis Diderot) 151

O’Connell, Daniel 233

O’Keeffe, John 134

‘Old Corruption’ 168, 170–3, 181, 188

Oldfield, Anne 64, 71, 76, 90–1, 96–7, 105, 107, 108

Old Price Riots 181–2, 206, 211

Old Vic Theatre see Coburg Theatre

Olympia Stadium (London) 232

Olympic Theatre (London) 182, 184, 201–2, 212, 218, 252, 259

On Liberty (John Stuart Mill) 221

On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin) 221, 222

opera 9, 19–23, 76–7, 83, 97, 277n.5

Opera of the Nobility 77, 271n.9

Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond 147

Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The (George Meredith) 221

Otway, Thomas 28, 29, 30, 45–6, 58, 184

Paddington (railway station) 226

Paine, Thomas 168, 174

Palmer, Barbara see Villiers, Barbara

pantomime 75–6, 78, 122, 125, 134, 198, 199–201

Paoli, General (Corsican hero) 125

Paradoxe sur le Comédien (Denis Diderot) 151

Paris 122, 151, 154, 155, 173, 232, 240

Parnell, Charles Stewart 222, 234

Patmore, Coventry 236

Peace of Versailles (1783) 116, 117

Peake, R. B. 197, 198

Peel, Sir Robert 173, 228–9, 233

Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland (Debrett) 185

penny gaffs 185, 278n.21

People’s Charter (1838) 168, 185

Pepys, Samuel 4–5, 7, 13, 19, 20, 26, 28, 36, 54, 55–6, 60, 66

Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of 106

Peterloo massacre 167, 170

Phelps, Samuel 194, 229, 264–5

Philips, Ambrose 99, 108

Phillips, Watts 230–1, 249

Pinero, Arthur Wing 192, 234, 237, 244, 245–6, 254, 255–6

Pinkethman, William 109–10, 159

Pitt, William (the Elder) 116

Pitt, William (the Younger) 174

Pix, Mary 99

Pixérécourt, Guilbert de 186

Place, Francis 172–3, 175, 181, 184

Planché, J. R. 184, 198, 201–2, 204, 212, 229, 265, 267

Plymouth 80, 132

Pocock, Isaac 198

Poel, William 267–8

Political Register, The (William Cobbett) 170, 276n.2

Ponsonby, Sir Henry 231

Poole, John 201, 218

Pope, Alexander 43, 74, 78, 100, 106, 121, 153, 271n.6

Popish Plot 17, 34, 44

population statistics 80, 178, 273n.8, 277n.12

Portsmouth, Duchess of see Kéroualle, Louise de

Portuguese Campaign 119

Potter, Paul 233

Pountney, David 22

Poussin, Nicolas 206

Powell, George 19, 58, 64

Powell, William 122, 152

Preston 119, 273n.5

Price, Curtis A. 19

Price, Uvedale 205

Priest, Josias 21, 22

Prince of Wales’s Theatre (London) 244, 246, 256, 259

Princess’s Theatre 182, 227, 265, 266

Prior, Matthew 121

Pritchard, Hannah 157, 158

prologues 33–4, 44, 52–3, 96, 157

Prompter, The 153

Proverbial Philosophy (Martin Tupper) 222

Pullen, Kirsten 57

Pulteney, William 82, 84, 88

Punch 215, 254, 280n.26

Purcell, Daniel (composer) 23

Purcell, Henry 20, 21–3

Quakers 97

Queen’s Theatre (Haymarket – later King’s) 19, 23, 29, 49, 77, 78, 88, 243, 244

Quin, James 58, 79, 107, 109, 111, 127, 149–50, 151, 153

Quintessence of Ibsenism, The (George Bernard Shaw) 253

Racine, Jean 43, 74, 99

Raft of the Medusa, The (Théodore Géricault) 204

railway boom 224–5, 226, 245

Ranelagh Gardens 128, 232

Reade, Charles 240, 249

Red Bull (playhouse) 12

Reflections on the Revolution in France (Edmund Burke) 168

Reform Act (1832) 167, 181

Regency 167, 170, 191, 209

rehearsals 57–61

‘Retaliation’ (Oliver Goldsmith) 140

Reynolds, Frederick 171, 173, 183, 186, 215, 218

Reynolds, Sir Joshua 119, 157, 206

Rich, Christopher 18–19, 23, 64, 75, 78, 92, 97, 103–4

Rich, John 75–6, 77, 78, 82, 99, 104, 109, 122, 124, 135, 149, 158, 271n.7

Richardson, Samuel 91, 137, 272n.3

Richmond, Duke of (royal bastard) 28–9

Richmond Theatre Royal (Yorkshire) 142, 275n.17

Rights of Man, The (Thomas Paine) n:168

Roach, Joseph 58–9

Robertson, Tom 192, 224, 225, 238, 239, 241, 243–5, 246, 255, 256, 259, 263

Robins, Elizabeth 250, 254, 258

Robinson, Anastasia 106

Robinson, Mary (‘Perdita’) 162

Robson, Frederick 252

Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of 7, 21, 24, 27, 36–7, 45, 52, 61, 66, 270n.3

Roos, John Manners, Lord 40

Roos Act (1670) 40

Rosciad, The (Charles Churchill) 118, 149, 151, 153, 158

Roscius Anglicanus (John Downes) 21, 22, 24, 109

Rothschild family 233, 282n.21

Rotunda (Blackfriars Road) 175

Rousseau, Jean Jacques 138, 273n.9

Rowe, Nicholas 61, 90–2, 99, 103, 107, 108, 272n.1

Royal Academy of Arts 116, 154

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 259

Royal National Theatre 190

Royal Shakespeare Company 134, 190

Royal Society 3, 35, 105

Royal Society of Antiquarians 266

Royalty Theatre (Wellclose Square) 131

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The (Edward Fitzgerald) 221

Rumpsteak Club 85–7

Ruskin, John 226

Russell, Gillian 173

Rutland House 8, 9, 12

Rymer, Thomas 71, 271n.1

Sadler, Dick 128

Sadler’s Wells playhouse 128–30, 197, 199, 229, 264, 265

St George’s Hall (London) 268

St James’s Park 35

St James’s Theatre 182, 202, 241, 261

St Pancras (railway station) 232

Salisbury Court 12, 29

Salvini, Tommaso 267

Sandford, Samuel 64

Sans Pareil Theatre (later Adelphi) 182, 211

Sans Souci Theatre 182, 211

Saratoga, Battle of 116, 119, 120

Saturday Review 257

Savoy Operas 118, 254, 256

Savoy Theatre (London) 239

scenery 11, 51, 157, 185, 192, 197, 239

Schoch, Richard 229

Scott, Clement 253

Scott, Jane 211

Scott, Sir Walter 188, 198

Scriblerus Club 100

Sedley, Sir Charles 27–8

Self-Help (Samuel Smiles) 221, 222

sensation novels 198, 246

sensation scenes 227, 246–7

sentimental comedy 137–41

Sentimental Journey, A (Laurence Sterne) 139

Setchel, Sarah (painter) 204

Settle, Elkanah 22

Shadwell, Thomas 21, 31, 35, 38, 63, 66

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of 44; 3rd Earl of 44, 102

Shakespeare Jubilee (1769) 125

Shakespeare Reading Society 268

Shakespeare, William 7, 16, 20, 22, 44, 53, 57, 74, 95, 107–9, 119, 125–6, 135, 148, 152, 184, 187, 201, 208–10, 264–8

‘Shakespeare’s Ladies’ 109

Shaw, George Bernard 79, 121, 235, 238, 241, 242, 244, 253, 254, 257, 261, 262, 263

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 196, 198

Shelley Society 256

Shepherd, Edward (Theatre architect) 104

Sheppard, Jack (highwayman) 82

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 81, 120, 121, 126–7, 128, 134, 137, 139, 142, 143, 144–5, 147, 154, 155, 159, 162, 163, 171, 174, 182–3, 184, 189, 211

Sheridan, Thomas 126, 136, 274n.4

Shirley, James 20

Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, A (Jeremy Collier) 30, 70, 95

Shuter, Edward 159

Siddons, Sarah 61, 132, 152, 157, 162, 183, 194, 205–6

Silas Marner (George Eliot) 252

‘silver fork’ novels 32

Simpson, Palgrave 252

Sims, George R. 246

‘Sir Roger de Coverley’ 99

Skipwith, Sir Thomas 18

slaves, emancipation of 167, 168–9, 221

Sloper, William (Susannah Cibber’s lover) 158

Smiles, Samuel 221, 222, 223, 224

Smith, Adam 77, 121

Smith, Bruce (‘Sensation’) 227

Smith, James L. 191

Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin 79, 111

Smollett, Tobias 117

Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor 170

Society for Constitutional Information 169

Society for the Reformation of Manners 69

Southerne, Thomas 23, 41–2, 46, 54

South Sea Bubble 69, 80–1

Southwark Fair 109, 110

Spectator 70–1, 73–4, 77, 89, 92, 99, 102, 168

Spencer, Lady Diana 84

Stage Society 256

Stanfield, Clarkson 210, 212

Stanley family 119, 120, 121, 160

Stationers’ Company 69, 91

Steele, Richard 70–4, 77, 78, 89, 92, 99, 102, 137, 168, 271n.3

Stephenson, George 224

Stern, Tiffany 60

Sterne, Laurence 132, 138, 139, 149, 150, 154

Stevenson, Robert Louis 228, 241, 249

Stourbridge Fair 273n.4

Strand Theatre (London) 182, 243, 244

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The (Robert Louis Stevenson) 228

Stratford-upon-Avon 125

Sturm und Drang 186

Sullivan, Sir Arthur 118, 254

Surrey Theatre 174, 182, 184, 201, 248

Swift, Jonathan 72, 82, 106, 121

Sword Blade Company 80, 81

Synge, J. M. 236

Tale of Two Cities, A (Charles Dickens) 221, 249

Talfourd, Thomas Noon 212

Talmage, T. De Witt (evangelist) 223, 224

Tate, Nahum 44, 109, 209

Tatham, John 29

Tatler 70

Tattersall’s 172

Taylor, George 173

Taylor, Tom 221, 225–6, 230, 246, 247

Telbin, William 212

Temple Bar (London) 130, 172

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 213, 221, 223, 236, 241, 242, 245, 252, 262

Terry, Edward 258

Terry, Ellen 236, 237, 261, 262, 263, 264

Terry, Marion 261

Thatcher, Margaret 283n.9

theatre riots 124, 125, 181–2

Theatres Regulation Act (1843) 168, 184, 212, 222

Theatric Tourist, The (James Winston) 132, 274n.13

Thomas, Brandon 243

Thompson, Benjamin 189

Thompson, Lydia 258

Thompson, Robert 21

Thomson, James 135

Thorne, Sarah 258–62

Thornhill, Sir James 92

Tillotson, John 70

Toole, J. L. 213, 258

Tories 44–6, 72, 76, 81–2, 97, 100, 174, 228, 277n.7

Torré, Giovanni (pioneer of pyrotechnics) 153, 276n.8

Tower of London 8, 131, 270n.1

‘Town’, the 48

Town and Country Magazine 153

toy theatres 198, 279n.18

tragedy (1660–1700) 42–6 (1700–1737) 89–94 (1737–1789) 134–7 (1789–1843) 192–6 (1843–1901) 241

travesty 201

Treaty of Utrecht (1713) 69, 74, 75

Tree, Beerbohm 251

Tree, Ellen 265

Trilby (George du Maurier) 233

Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne) 138, 149, 150, 154

Tuke, Sir Samuel 60

Tupper, Martin 222–3

turnpike roads 131

Two Acts (1794) 167, 169

typewriters 222, 238, 282n.25

United Company (1682) 18, 22, 23, 29, 64, 66

vampire trap 198, 279n.19

Vanbrugh, Sir John 19, 30, 41, 49, 95, 109, 191

Vanity Fair (magazine) 227

Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray) 264

Vaughan, Kate 242

Vauxhall Gardens 232

Venice in London exhibition 232

Vestris, Madame 190, 192, 201–2, 212, 213, 215, 218, 240, 259

Victoria, Queen 168, 184–5, 202, 212, 222, 228–9, 231, 238, 243, 245, 258, 265, 266

Villiers, Barbara 25–7, 28, 33, 38, 56

Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A (Mary Wollstonecraft) 143

‘Vision of the Golden Rump, The’ 85

Wade, John 170

Wakley, Thomas (founder of the Lancet) 169

Walker, John 174–5, 185

Walkley, A. B. 253

Walpole, Horace 83, 197

Walpole, Robert 69, 79, 80, 115–16, 124–5, 145

Wandering Patentee, The (Tate Wilkinson) 132

Ward, Ned 110, 171

wars

   Second and Third Dutch Wars 3, 29

   War of the League of Augsburg 4

   War of Spanish Succession 4, 69, 74–5

   War of Jenkins’ Ear 116

   War of the Austrian Succession 116

   Seven Years War 116, 117, 119, 130

   American War of Independence 116, 117–18, 160

   wars with France 29, 116, 167, 173, 211

   Crimean War 222, 247

   Indian War of Independence/ Mutiny 222, 230

   Boer War 222

Waterloo, Battle of 116, 167, 170

Waterloo (railway station) 227

Watts, George Frederick 236

Wealth of Nations, The (Adam Smith) 77, 121

Weber, Carl 201

Webster, Ben 267

Webster’s (acting editions) 240

Wellington, Duke of 116, 224, 243

Weston, Thomas 159

Whigs 44–5, 72, 73, 74–5, 76, 78–9, 81–2, 89, 97, 162, 174, 228, 277n.7

Whitefield, George 93, 159

Widow MacCormack’s Cabbage Patch, Battle of 233

Wilberforce, Samuel 228

Wilberforce, William 168

Wild, Jonathan 82

Wilde, Oscar 79, 138, 139, 241, 244, 245, 252, 254, 255, 267

Wilkes, John 116, 144, 145

Wilkie, David (painter) 175, 204

Wilkinson, Rev. John (father of Tate Wilkinson) 132, 275n.15

Wilkinson, Tate 64, 132–3, 134, 162, 211, 213

Wilks, Robert 71, 76, 79, 105, 107, 108, 111

William III 4, 22, 29, 30, 34, 41, 48, 69, 71, 72, 76, 91

William IV 162, 167, 168, 193

Wills, W. G. 248, 262

Wilson, Benjamin (painter) 153

Wilton, Marie 243–4, 255, 256, 258, 259

Windsor Castle theatricals 265, 266

Winston, James 132, 207, 274n.13

wit 39–42

Woffington, Peg 79, 127, 158, 159

Wollstonecraft, Mary 143

Woman Who Did, The (Grant Allen) 236–7

Wood, Mrs Henry 237, 252

Woodward, Henry 134, 158

Woolley, Hannah 32, 33

Wordsworth, William 187, 194

Wright, Thomas (The Passions of the Minde) 59

Wroughton, Richard 128

Wycherley, William 25, 26, 30, 51–3, 55–6, 184, 270n.1

Wyndham, Charles 258, 261–2

Yates, Richard 131

Yeats, W. B. 234

Yellow Book, The 263

York 80, 132, 229, 248

York, Duke of (George III’s brother) 127

Young, Charles Mayne 207

Young, Edward 135

Young, G. M. 221

Young Irelanders 233

Zoffany, Johann (painter) 153, 157