GENERAL STUDIES | INDIVIDUAL MANAGERS AND ACTORS

 

GENERAL STUDIES

Archer, William, and Robert W. Lowe, eds. Dramatic Essays, 3 vols. London: Walter Scott, 1895.

Asleson, Robyn, ed. Notorious Muse: The Actress in British Art and Culture, 1776-1812. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Avery, Emmett, and Charles B. Hogan. The London Stage: A Calendar of Plays, Entertainments and Afterpieces, 1660-1800, 11 vols. Carbondale: University of Illinois Press, 1960-65.

Bains, Yashdip Singh. English Canadian Theatre, 1765-1826. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.

Bate, Jonathan. Shakespeare Constitutions: Politics, Theatre, Criticism 1730-1830. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.

Bell, John. [A Volume of Plates Issued as a Supplement to Bell's Edition of Shakespeare.] London: John Bell, 1773-6.

Bolton, Betsy. Women, Nationalism and the Romantic Stage: Theatre and Politics in Britain, 1780-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Branam, George C. Eighteenth Century Adaptations of Shakespearean Tragedy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1956.

Bruntjen, S. H. A. John Boydell, 1719-1804: A Study of Art Patronage and Publishing in Georgian England.New York: Garland, 1985.

Burnim, Kalman A. and Philip H. Highfill, eds. John Bell, Patron of British Theatrical Portraiture: A Catalogue of the Theatrical Portraits in His Editions of Bell's Shakespeare and Bell's British Theatre. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1998.

Bush-Bailey, Gilli. Treading the Bawds: Actresses and Playwrights on the Late-Stuart Stage. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006.

Cholij, Irena. Music in Eighteenth Century London Shakespeare Productions. [Ph.D. Dissertation.] London: University of London, 1995.

Cibber, Colley. "Thomas Betterton." In Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism XVII-XX Centuries, edited by A. C. Ward, 46-59. London: Oxford University Press, 1945.

Cooke, Charles. Memoirs of Charles Macklin. . . Forming an History of the Stage During Almost the Whole of the Last Century. London: J. Aspern, 1804.

Cordner, Michael, and Peter Holland. Players, Playwrights, Playhouses: Investigating Performance, 1660-1750. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Craig, H. D. Ben Jonson: The Critical Heritage, 1599-1798. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Davies, Thomas. Dramatic Miscellanies Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakespeare: With a Review of his Principal Characters, and those of the various eminent writers as represented by Mr. Garrick and other celebrated Comedians with anecdotes of Dramatic Poets, Actors, etc. Dublin: S. Price, H. Whitestone, etc., 1784.

Davies, Thomas. "Garrick's First Performance in London." In Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism XVII-XX Centuries, edited by A. C. Ward, 60-2. London: Oxford University Press, 1945.

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 89: Restoration and Eighteenth Century Dramatists, third series, edited by Paula R. Backscheider. New York: Gale, 1989.

Dobson, Michael. The Making of a National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769. London: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Donohue, Joseph W. Dramatic Character in the English Romantic Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970.

Doran, Dr. J[ohn]. "Their Majesties' Servants" or Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean: Actors, Authors, Audiences. London: John C. Ninuns, 1864, 1865; revised Robert W. Lowe, 1888.

Downes, J. Roscius Anglicanus, or, an Historical Review of the Stage, [1708], edited by Montague Summers. London: Fortune, 1928; edited by J. Milhous and R. D. Hume, 1987.

Dugas, Don-John. Marketing the Bard: Shakespeare in Performance and Print 1660-1740. Columbia, MO; London: University of Missouri Press, 2006.

Fielding, Henry. "Mr. Partridge Sees Garrick." In Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism XVII-XX Centuries, edited by A. C. Ward, 63-8. London: Oxford University Press, 1945.

Findlater, Richard. The Player Kings. New York: Stein and Day, 1971.

Findlater, Richard. The Player Queens. New York: Taplinger Publishing Comany, 1977.

Fisher, Judith W. "Creating Another Identity: Aging Actresses in the Eighteenth Century." Journal of Aging and Identity 4, no. 2 (June 1999): 57-77.

Fisk, Deborah Payne, ed. Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington. A New History of the English Stage, 2 vols. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1882.

Freeman, Arthur, ed. "An Essay Upon English Tragedy with Remarks upon the Abbe de Blanc's Observations on the English Stage" by William Guthrie Together with "An Attempte to Rescue that Aunciente English Poet and Play-Wrighte Maister Williaume Shakespere From the Maney Errours, faulsely charged on him, by Certaine New-fangled Wittes" by John Holt, [1747, 1749]. London: Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1971.

Friedman,Winifred. Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. New York: Garland, 1976.

Genest, John. Some Account of the English Stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 10 vols. Bath: H. E. Carrington, 1832.

[Gentleman, Francis.] The Dramatic Censor; or, Critical Companion, 2 vols. London: J. Bell and C. Etherington, 1770.

Golder, John. Shakespeare for the Age of Reason: The Earliest Stage Adaptations of Jean-Francois Ducis, 1769-1793. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1992.

Gray, Charles H. Theatrical Criticism in London to 1795. New York: Columbia University Press, 1931.

Greene, John C. and Gladys L. H. Clark. The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745: A Calendar of Plays, Entertainments, and Afterpieces. Cranbury, NJ: Lehigh University, 1993.

Greene, John C. Theatre in Belfast, 1736-1800. Cranbury, NJ: Lehigh University, 2000.

[Haslewood, Joseph.] The Secret History of the Green Rooms: containing Authentic Memoirs of the Actors and Actresses in the Three Theatres Royal, 2 vols. London: Printed for J. Ridgway, J. Forbes and H.D. Symmonds, 1790.

Highfill, Philip, Jr., Kalman A. Bumim, and Edward A. Langhans. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800, 16 vols. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973-93.

Hogan, Charles B. Shakespeare in the Theatre: A Record of Performances in London, 1701-1800, 2 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952-57.

Hotson, Leslie. The Commonwealth and Restoration Stage. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928.

Howe, Elizabeth. The First English Actresses: Women and Drama 1660-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Jackson, John. The History of the Scottish Stage, from its First Establishment to the Present Time. Edinburgh: Thoemmes Press, 1793.

Johnson, Odai, William J. Burling, and James A. Coombs. The Colonial American Stage, 1665-1774: A Documentary Calendar. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001.

Johnson, Samuel. Johnson on Shakespeare, edited by Walter Raleigh. London: Oxford University Press, 1908.

Jusserand, Jean Jules. Shakespeare en France sous l'ancien regime. Paris: Colin, 1898.

Kahn, Victoria. Machiavellian Rhetoric from the Counter-Refomation to Milton. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Kelly, Michael. Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, of the King's Theatre, and Theatre Royal Drury Lane: Including a period of nearly half a century; with original anecdotes of many distinguished persons, political, literary, and musical. London: H. Colburn, 1826.

Lamb, Charles. "On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation." In Shakespeare Criticism: A Selection, edited by D. Nichol Smith, 190-212. London: Oxford University Press, 1916.

Langbaine, Gerard. Lives and characters of the English dramatick poets: also an exact account of all the plays that were ever yet printed in the English tongue, their double titles, the places where acted, the dates when printed, etc. Oxford: L[eonard] L[ichfield] for Gorge West & Henry Clements, 1691.

Loundsbury, Thomas R. Shakespeare and Voltaire. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902.

Lowenthal, Cynthia. Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.

Macey, Samuel L. "The Introduction of Shakespeare into Germany in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century." Eighteenth-Century Studies 5 (1972): 261-69.

MacGregor-Hastie, Roy, Nell Gwyn, London: R. Hale, 1987.

Marshall, Gail, ed. Lives of Shakespeare Actors, 3 vols. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009.

McDowell, Judith H. "Translations, Adaptations, and Imitations of Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century France." Arlington Quarterly 3, no. 1 (1971): 140-59.

Marsden, Jean I. The Re-Imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Eighteenth Century Literary Theory. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.

Monaco, Marion. Shakespeare on the French Stage in the Eighteenth Century. Paris: Didier, 1974.

Moody, Jane, and Daniel O'Quinn, eds. The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre 1730-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Muir, Kenneth, Jay Halio, and D. J. Palmer, eds. Shakespeare: Man of the Theatre. Newark University Press, 1983.

Murray, Barbara. Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004.

Murray, Barbara, ed. Shakespeare Adaptations from the Restoration: Five Plays. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005.

Murray, Timothy. Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius in Seventeenth-Century England and France. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Nelson, Alan H. Early Cambridge Theatres: College, University and Town Stages 1464-1720. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Nettleton, George Henry. English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642-1780). London: Macmillan, 1914.

Noyes, Robert Gales. The Thespian Mirror: Shakespeare in the Eighteenth -Century Novel. Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1953.

Nussbaum, Felicity. Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance and the Eighteenth Century British Theatre. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

Odell, George C. D. Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1920. Reprinted with new Introduction by Robert H. Ball, New York: Dover, 1966.

Odell, George C. D. Annals of the New York Stage. New York: Columbia University Press, 1927-49.

Oulton, Walley Chamberlain. The History of the Theatres of London: containing an annual register of all the new and revived tragedies, comedies, operas, farces, pantomimes, &c., that have been performed at the Theatres-Royal, in London, from the year 1771 to 1795. London: Martin and Bain, 1796.

Oxberry, William. Dramatic Biography and Historic Anecdotes, 5 Vols. London: D. Virtue, 1825-6.

Pane, R. U. English Translations from the Spanish 1484-1943. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1944.

Pape, Walter, and Frederick Burwick, eds. Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. Bottrop: Pomp, 1996.

Pepys, Samuel. "London Theatres in the 1660s." In Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism XVII-XX Centuries, edited by A. C. Ward, 21-43. London: Oxford University Press, 1945.

Quinsey, Katherine M., ed. Broken Boundaries: Women and Feminism in Restoration Drama. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Ritchie, Fiona, & Peter Sabor, eds. Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Universsity Press, 20-12

Roberts, J. A. "Shakespearean Comedy and Some Eighteenth-Century Actresses." In Shakespeare: Man of the Theatre, edited by Kenneth Muir, Jay Halio, and D. J. Palmer. 212-30.

Rosenfeld, Sybil. Temples of Thespis: Some Private Theatres and Theatricals in England and Wales, 1700-1820. London: Society for Theatrical Research, 1978.

Russell, W. Clark. Representative Actors: a Collection of Criticisms, Anecdotes etc. referring to Many Celebrated British Actors from the 16th to the Present Century. London: Frederck Warne, 1850.

Scheil, Katherine West. The Taste of the Town: Shakespearean Comedy and the early Eighteenth-Century Theatre. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2003.

Schoester, Robert. United States Theatre: A Bibliography from the Beginning to 1990. Romsey, UK: Motley Press, 1993.

Schofield, Mary Anne, and Cecilia Macheski, eds. Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660-1820. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1991.

Scott, W. S. The Georgian Theatre. London: John Westhouse, 1946.

Smith, David Nichol. Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928.

Southern, Richard. The Georgian Playhouse. London: Pleiades, 1948.

Spencer, Christopher, ed. Five Restoration Adaptations of Shakespeare. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965.

Spencer, Hazelton. Shakespeare Improved: The Restoration Versions in Quarto and on the Stage. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927.

Steele, Sir Richard. "Betterton's Benefit." In Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism XVII-XX Centuries, edited by A. C. Ward, 44-5. London: Oxford University Press, 1945.

Summers, Montague. Restoration Theatre. London, 1934.

Summers, Montague, ed. Shakespeare Adaptations: "The Tempest," "The Mock Tempest," and "King Lear." New York: Haskell, 1966.

Taylor, Gary. Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1989.

The Thespian Dictionary; or, dramatic biography of the eighteenth century; containing sketches of the lives, productions, & c.of all the principal managers, dramatists, composers, commentators, actors, and actresses, of the United Kingdom: interspersed with several original anecdotes; and forming a concise history of the English stage. London: Printed by J. Cundee for T. Hurst, 1802.

Vanderhoff, George. Dramatic Reminiscences: Leaves from an Actor's Notebook. London, 1860.

Victor, Benjamin. The History of the Theatres of London and Dublin, from the Year 1730 to the Present Time: To which is added, an annual register of all the plays, &c., performed at the Theatres-Royal in London, from the year 1712 with occasional notes and anecdotes. London: Printed for T. Davies [etc.], 1761-71.

Ward, A. W. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne. Revised edition 3 vols. London; New York: Frederick Ungar, 1899 and 1970.

Ward, John. Diary, edited by Charles Severn. London: H. Colburn, 1839.

Wemyss, Francis Courtney. Chronology of the American Stage, from 1752-1852. New York: O. A. Roorbach, c1852.

Wheeler, David. Eighteenth Century Adaptations of Shakespeare and the Example of John Dennis. Shakespeare Quarterly 36, no. 4 (Winter 1985): 438-449.

Wilkes, Thomas [pseudo. of Samuel Derrick]. A General View of the Stage. London: J. Coote, W. Whetstone, 1759.

Wilson, John Harold. All the King's Ladies: Actresses of the Restoration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.

Winter, William. The Life and Art of Edwin Booth. New York: Macmillan, 1893.

Winter, William. Shadows of the Stage. 3 Vols. New York: Macmillan and Company, 1892-1895.

Woo, Celestine. Romantic Actors and Bardolatry: Performing Shakespeare from Garrick to Kean. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.

Wood, William Burke. Personal Recollections of the Stage, Embracing Notices of Actors, Authors, and Auditors During a Period of Forty Years. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1855.

Wright, James. Historia Histrionica: An Historical Account of the English Stage Shewing the Ancient Use, Improvement & Perfection of Dramatic Representations, in this Nation in a Dialogue of Plays and Players. London: G. Croon, 1699. Facsimile reprint. London: Ashee Facsimiles, 1872.

Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre from 1732 to 1897. 2 Vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1906.

Zesmer, David M. Guide to Shakespeare. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1976.

 

INDIVIDUAL MANAGERS AND ACTORS

Studies of Multiple Individuals

Grebanier, David. Then Came Each Actor: Shakespearean Actors, Great and Otherwise, including Players and Princes, Rogues, Vagabonds and Actors Motley, from Will Kempe to Olivier and Gielgud and After. New York: David McKay, 1975.

Matthews, Brander, and Laurence Hutton, ed. Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States, from the Days of David Garrick to the Present Time. New York: Cassell & Company, 1886; Reprint, Boston: L. C. Page, 1900.

Zesmer, David M. Guide to Shakespeare. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1976.

 

Alphabetical by name of subject:

Abington, Frances

[Abington, Frances.] Life of Mrs. Abington (Formerly Miss Barton) Celebrated Comic Actress, with full accounts of her various performances in the theatres of London and Dublin; including also interesting notes upon the history of the Irish stage, and copious notices, anecdotes, and criticisms of her theatrical contemporaries, by the Editor of 'The Life of Quin'. London: Reader, 1888.

Baddley, Sophia

Steele, Elizabeth. The Memoirs of Mrs. Sophia Baddley Late of Drury Lane, 6 vols. London: 1787.

Bannister, John

Adolphus, John. Memoirs of John Bannister. London: R. Bentley, 1839.

Bellamy, George Anne

Bellamy, George Anne. An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, 6 vols. London: John Bell, 1785.

Betterton, Thomas

Betterton, Thomas [?]. The History of the English Stage from the Restauration [sic] to the Present Time. Including the Lives, Characters and Amours Of the most Eminent Actors and Actresses. London: E. Curll, 1741.

Gildon, Charles. The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton. London: Robert Gosling, 1710; Reprinted, New York: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1970.

Lowe, R. W. Thomas Betterton. London: Kegan Paul, 1891; [reprint 1972].

Boaden, James

Boaden, James. The Life of Mrs. Jordan, 2 vols. London: Edward Bull, 1831.

Boaden, James. Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald, 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1833.

Boaden, James. Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble Including a History of ther Stage from Garrick to the Present, 2 vols. London: Longman, et al., 1825.

Boaden, James. Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons Interspersed with Anecdotes of Authors and Actors. London: Henry Colburn, 1827.

Boaden, James. The Plays, edited by Steven Cohan. London & New York: Garland, 1980.

Charke, Charlotte

Charke, Charlotte. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq.) Written by Herself. London: W. Reeve, A. Dodd, and E. Cooke, 1755.

Cibber, Colley

Ashley, Leonard R. N. Colley Cibber. New York: Twayne, 1965.

Barker. R. H. Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane. New York: Columbia University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1939.

Cibber. C. An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Gibber, [1740] edited by B. R. S. Foyne. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1968.

Koon, Helene. Colley Cibber: A Biography. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1986.

Clive, Kitty

Joncus, Berta. "A Likeness Where None Was to be Found: Imagining Kitty Clive, (1711-1785)." In Music in Art, 34, no. 1-2 (2009): 89-106.

Cooke, George Frederick

Dunlap, William. Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke Esq. London: Printed for Henry Colburn, British and Foreign Public Library, Conduit-Street, Hanover-Square; and sold by George Goldie, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin, 1813.

Davenant, Sir William

Blaydes S. B and P. Bordinat. Sir William Davenant: An Annotated Bibliography 1629-1985. 1986.

Edmond, Mary. Rare Sir William Davenant. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987.

Farren, Elizabeth, Countess of Derby

Bloxam, Suzanne. Walpole's Queen of Comedy: Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby. Ashford: Bloxam, 1988.

Garrick, David

Burnim, Kalman A. David Garrick, Director. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1961.

Caines, Michael, ed. Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part 1, Volume 1: David Garrick. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007.

Cunningham, Vanessa. Shakespeare and Garrick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Kendall, Alan. David Garrick: A Biography. London: Harrap, 1985.

Marshall, Gail, ed. Lives of Shakespeare Actors, Volume I: David Garrick, Charles Macklin, and Margaret Woffington. London: Pickering and Chatto: 2009.

Stone, George W. and G. M. Kahrl. David Garrick: A Critical Biography. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1979.

Griffith, Elizabeth

Eger, Elizabeth. "Spectacle, Intellect and Authority: the Actress in the Eighteenth Century." In The Cambridge Companion to the Actress, edit by Maggie B. Gale and John Stokes, 33-51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Gwyn, Nell

Beauclerk, Charles. Nell Gwyn: A Biography. London: Macmillan, 2005.

Seymour, John. Memoirs of the Life of Eleanor Gwyn. London: F. Stamper, 1752.

Hazlitt, William

Davis, T. C. "'Reading Shakespeare by Flashes of Lightning': Challenging the Foundations of Romantic Acting Theory." English Literary History 62: 933-54. [Analyses descriptions of E. Kean's acting by Romantic critics, particularly Hazlitt and Coleridge]

Hazlitt, William. Criticism and Dramatic Essays of the English Stage. London: G. Routledge, 1851.

Hazlitt, William. Art and Dramatic Criticism. In The Complete Works, edited by P. P. Howe. London: J. M. Dent, 1930.

Hunt, Leigh

Hunt, Leigh. Leigh Hunt's Dramatic Criticism 1808-1831, edited by Lawrence H. Houtchens and Carolyn W. Houtchens. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949.

Hunt, Leigh. "Mrs. Siddons." In Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism XVII-XX Centuries, edited by A. C. Ward, 84-8. London: Oxford University Press, 1945.

Inchbald, Elizabeth

Boaden, James. Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald, 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1833.

Jordan, Dorothy

Boaden, James. The Life of Mrs. Jordan, 2 vols. London: Edward Bull, 1831.

Dejardin, Ian A. C., ed. Mrs. Jordan: the Duchess of Drury Lane. London: Iveagh Bequest and English Heritage, 1995.

Tomalin, Claire. Mrs. Jordan's Profession: the Story of a Great Actress and Future King. London: Viking, 1994.

Kean, Charles

Marshall, Gail, ed. Lives of Shakespeare Actors, Volume III: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps, and William Charles Macready. London: Pickering and Chatto: 2009.

Schoch, Richard W. Shakespeare's Victorian Stage: Performing History in the Theatre of Charles Kean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Kean, Edmund

Barnes, Thomas. "Kean as Richard III." In Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism XVII-XX Centuries, edited by A. C. Ward, 96-100. London: Oxford University Press, 1945.

Davis, Jim, ed. Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part 2: Volume I, Edmund Kean. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007.

Davis, T. C. "'Reading Shakespeare by Flashes of Lightning': Challenging the Foundations of Romantic Acting Theory." English Literary History 62: 933-54. [Analyses descriptions of E. Kean's acting by Romantic critics, particularly Hazlitt and Coleridge]

FitzSimmons, Raymond. Edmund Kean: Fire from Heaven. New York: Dial, 1976.

Kahan, Jeffrey. The Cult of Kean. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Proctor, Brian Waller. Life of Edmund Kean. London: Edward Moxton, 1835

Kemble, John Philip

Baker, Herschel. John Philip Kemble: The Actor in his Theatre. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969.

Boaden, James. Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble Including a History of ther Stage from Garrick to the Present, 2 vols. London: Longman, et al., 1825.

Child, H. The Shakespearean Productions of John Philip Kemble. London: Oxford University Press, 1935.

Percy Fitzgerald, Percy. The Kembles, 2 vols., 1871; reprint, New York: Benjamin Blom, 1969.

Freeman, Lisa, ed. Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part 2: Volume 2, Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007.

Kemble, John Philip. Promptbooks, edited by Charles Shattuck, 10 vols. Washington, DC: University of Virginia Press (Folger Library), 1974.

Linley, Elizabeth

Chedzoy, Alan. Sheridan's Nightingale: the Story of Elizabeth Linley. London: Allison and Busby, 1997.

Macklin, Charles

Goring, Paul, ed. Lives of Shakespearean Actors. Part 1, Volume 2: Charles Macklin. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007.

Marshall, Gail, ed. Lives of Shakespeare Actors, Volume I: David Garrick, Charles Macklin, and Margaret Woffington. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009.

Macready, William Charles

Downer, Alan S. The Eminent Tragedian, William Charles Macready. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966.

Macready, William Charles. Macready's Reminiscences and Selections from his Diaries and Letters, edited by F. Pollock, 1875.

Marshall, Gail, ed. Lives of Shakespeare Actors, Volume III: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps, and William Charles Macready. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009.

Pollock, Frederick, ed. Macready's Reminiscences, 2 vol. New York: Macmillan, 1875.

Phelps, Samuel

Marshall, Gail, ed. Lives of Shakespeare Actors, Volume III: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps, and William Charles Macready. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009.

Quin, James

[Quin, James], Anon. Life of Mr. James Quin, Comedian. London: S. Bladon, 1766.

Robinson, Mary

Byrne, Paula. The Life of Mary Robinson. London: Harper Collins, 2004.

Eger, Elizabeth. "Spectacle, Intellect and Authority: the Actress in the Eighteenth Century." In The Cambridge Companion to the Actress, edited by Maggie B. Gale and John Stokes, 33-51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Robinson, Mary. Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Written by Herself, Completed and Edited by her Daughter Maria and Published in 1801. Reprint, London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1930.

Siddons, Sarah

Asleson, Robyn, ed. A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1999.

Boaden, James. Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons Interspersed with Anecdotes of Authors and Actors. London: Henry Colburn, 1827.

Campbell, Thomas. Life of Mrs. Siddons, 2 vols. London: Effingham Wilson, 1834.

Eger, Elizabeth. "Spectacle, Intellect and Authority: the Actress in the Eighteenth Century." In The Cambridge Companion to the Actress, edited by Maggie B. Gale and John Stokes, 33-51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Ffrench, Yvonne. Mrs. Siddons: Tragic Actress. London: D. Verscoyle, 1954.

Fitzgerald, Percy. The Kembles, 2 vols. 1871; reprint, New York: Benjamin Blom, 1969.

Freeman, Lisa, ed. Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part 2: Volume 2, Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007.

Hunt, Leigh. "Mrs. Siddons." In Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism XVII-XX Centuries, edited by A. C. Ward, 84-8. London: Oxford University Press, 1945.

Manvell, Roger. Sarah Siddons: Portrait of an Actress. London: Heinemann, 1971.

Marshall, Gail, ed. Lives of Shakespeare Actors, Volume II: Sarah Siddons. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009.

McPherson, Heather. "Picturing Tragedy: Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse Revisited." Eighteenth-Century Studies 33, no. 3 (2000): 401-430.

Rogers, Pat. "'Towering Beyond Her Sex': Stature and Sublimity in the Achievement of Sarah Siddons." In Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660-1820, edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, 48-67. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1991.

Siddons, Sarah. Reminiscences. London: Henry Colburn, 1831.

Van Lennep, William, ed. The Reminiscences of Sarah Kemble Siddons. Cambridge: Widener Library, 1942.

West, Shearer. "Siddons, Celebrity and Regality: Portraiture and the Body of the Ageing Actress." In Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660-2000, edited by Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody, 191-213. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Young, Julian Charles. "Others – and Mrs. Siddons." In Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism XVII-XX Centuries, edited by A. C. Ward, 89-92. London: Oxford University Press, 1945.

Smithson, Harriet

Raby, Peter, ed. Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part 2: Volume 3, Harriet Smithson. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007.

Tate, Nahum

Black, James. "An Augustan Stage-History: Nahum Tate's King Lear." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theater Research 6 (1967): 36-54.

Woffington, Margaret

Marshall, Gail, ed. Lives of Shakespeare Actors, Volume I: David Garrick, Charles Macklin, and Margaret Woffington. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009.

Shaughnessy, Nicola and Robert, eds. Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part 1, Volume 3: Margaret Woffington. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007.