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Features three female actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare.
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LIVES OF SHAKESPEARIAN ACTORS III VOLUME 2: LUCIA ELIZABETH VESTRIS Introduction I. Early Notices 'King's, The Times (1815) 'The Mirror of Fashion', Morning Chronicle (1815) 6'Madame Vestris (Extract of a Letter from Paris)', British Stage and Literary Cabinet (1817) 'Theatrical Examiner', Examiner (1820) 'Artaxerxes', Theatrical Inquisitor (1820) 'Giovanni in London', Theatrical Inquisitor (1820) 'Biographical Sketches of Illustrious and Distinguished Characters, Number One Hundred and Th irty-Eight: Madame Vestris', La Belle Assemblée (1820) II. Scandal and Defence Anon., Memoirs of the Life, Public and Private Adventures of Madame Vestris ([1836]), excerpts [W. Oxberry], 'Memoir of Madame Vestris', Oxberry's Dramatic Biography and Histrionic Anecdotes (1826) Spirit of the Age Newspaper, for 1828 (1829), excerpts Anon., Memoirs, Public & Private Life, Adventures, and Secret Amours of Mrs C. M. late Mad. V. of the Royal Olympic Theatre (n.d) Anon., Memoirs of The Life of Madame Vestris of the Theatres Royal Drury Lane and Covent Garden (1830), excerpts 'Drury Lane Theatre', The Times (1830) Lumley Skeffington, 'Stanzas on Madame Vestris having Established a Theatre of her Own', The Times (1831) James Orchard Halliwell, The Management of Covent Garden Theatre Vindicated from the Attack of an Anonymous Critic (1841), excerpt III. Managers, Actors and Stage Crew on Vestris Alfred Bunn, The Stage (1840), excerpts Joe Cowell, Thirty Years Passed among the Players in England and America (1845),excerpt George Vandenhoff , Dramatic Reminiscences (1860), excerpts [Mathew Mackintosh], Stage Reminiscences (1866), excerpts Fred Belton, Random Recollections of an Old Actor (1880), excerpts Lester Wallack, Memories of Fifty Years (1889), excerpts James R. Anderson, An Actor's Life (1902), excerpts John Coleman, Fifty Years of an Actor's Life (1904), excerpt IV. Dramatists on Vestris Leigh Hunt, A Legend of Florence: a Play in Five Acts (1840), excerpt D. Bourcicault [sic], London Assurance (1841), excerpt D. Boucicault, 'The Debut of a Dramatist', North American Review (1889), excerpt T. F. Dillon Croker and S. Tucker (eds), The Extravaganzas of J. R. Planché (1879),excerpts James Robinson Planché, Recollections and Reflections (1901), excerpts V. Recollections of Charles Mathews Charles James Mathews, The Life of Charles James Mathews (1879), excerpts VI. Miscellaneous Recollections [William Cox], Crayon Sketches by an Amateur, ed. Theodore S. Fay (1833), excerpt [Prince Pückler-Muskau], Tour in England, Ireland, and France (1832), excerpt Mrs C. Baron Wilson, Our Actresses (1844), excerpts Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, ed. Thomas H. Duncombe (1868), excerpt Dutton Cook, Hours with the Players (1881), excerpt George Augustus Sala, The Life and Adventures of George Augustus Sala (1895),excerpt VII. Reviews of Non-Shakespearian Productions 'Covent Garden', Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres (1827) 'Madame Vestris', Dramatic Magazine (1829), excerpt 'Worcester', Dramatic Magazine (1829), excerpt 'Theatre Royal', Caledonian Mercury (1829), excerpt 'Theatricals', Figaro in London (2 February 1833), excerpt 'Theatricals', Figaro in London (9 March 1833), excerpt 'Theatricals', Figaro in London (23 March 1833), excerpt 'Theatricals', Figaro in London (26 March 1835), excerpt 'Her Majesty's Visit to Covent Garden', Theatrical Companion (1849) [G. H. Lewes], 'The Perfection of Acting', Leader (1850) VIII. Reviews of Shakespearian Productions 'Drury-Lane Theatre', The Times (1822) 'The Theatres: Covent Garden', Caledonian Mercury (1839) 'The Stage: Covent Garden', Odd Fellow (1839) 'Music and the Drama', Athenaeum (1839), excerpt 'Theatrical Examiner', Examiner (1839) 'Theatres', John Bull (1839) 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', John Bull (1840) 'Music and Drama', Athanaeum (1840) 'Theatrical Examiner', Examiner (1840) 'Covent Garden, Era (1840) 'Covent-Garden Theatre', The Times (1840) IX. Obituaries and Retrospectives T. P. Grinstead, 'Madame Vestris', Bentley's Miscellany (1856) Westland Marston, Our Recent Actors (1888), excerpt 'Madame Vestris', Dwight's Journal of Music (1856) 'Memoir of Madame Vestris', Era (1856) Editorial Notes
