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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have beencorrected after careful comparison with other occurrences withinthe text and consultation of external sources.

More detail can be found at the end of the book.


Note.Three Hundred copies of this Edition printed on fine deckle-edgeRoyal 8vo paper. The fifty Portraits are given in duplicate, oneon Japanese and the other on plate paper, as India proofs.

Each of these copies is numbered.


  No. ........



"Their Majesties' Servants"

Dr. DORAN, F.S.A.

VOLUME THE THIRD


Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON



"THEIR MAJESTIES' SERVANTS"

ANNALS

OF

THE ENGLISH STAGE

FROM

THOMAS BETTERTON TO EDMUND KEAN


BY

Dr. DORAN, F.S.A.


EDITED AND REVISED BY ROBERT W. LOWE


With Fifty Copperplate Portraits and Eighty Wood Engravings


IN THREE VOLUMES

VOLUME THE THIRD


LONDON

JOHN C. NIMMO

14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND

MDCCCLXXXVIII


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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.PAGE
OF AUTHORS, AND PARTICULARLY OF CONDEMNED AUTHORS1
 
CHAPTER II.
THE AUDIENCES OF THE LAST HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY30
 
CHAPTER III.
CHARLES MACKLIN63
 
CHAPTER IV.
A BEVY OF LADIES;—BUT CHIEFLY, MRS. BELLAMY, MISSFARREN, MRS. ABINGTON, AND "PERDITA"84
 
CHAPTER V.
A GROUP OF GENTLEMEN115
 
CHAPTER VI.
JOHN HENDERSON144
 
CHAPTER VII.
SARAH SIDDONS...

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