Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 3: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries [Hardcover]

Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing ShakespeareLIVES OF SHAKESPEARIAN ACTORS III VOLUME 3: WILLIAM CHARLES MACREADY Introduction, Macreadys Early Years Macreadys Reminiscences and Selections fr om his Diaries and Letters, ed. F. Pollock (1876), excerpts Romeo and Juliet, Ariss Birmingham Gazette (11 June 1810) Hamlet, Newcastle Advertiser (13 April 1813) Henry IV Part 1, Tyne Mercury (26 January 1813) Romeo and Juliet, Bath Chronicle (5 January 1815) J. Genest, Some Account of the English Stage (1832), excerpt The Young Contender as Richard III Macreadys Reminiscences and Selections fr om his Diaries and Letters, excerpts Richard III, Theatrical Inquisitor (1819) A Critical Examination of the Respective Performances of Mr. Kean and Mr. Macready (1819), excerpts F. D. C., Macready and Kean, Theatrical Inquisitor (1829) 5Establishing a Reputation W. Hazlitt, Othello, Examiner (1816) L. Hunt, Coriolanus, Examiner (1819) Macbeth, Theatrical Inquisitor (1820) Mr. Macready, The Drama; or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine (1823) Actors of the Present Day No. 5 Mr. Macready, Theatrical Inquisitor (1828) L. Hunt, Macready as Hamlet (1894) Prince Puckler-Muskau, Tour in England, Ireland and France (1833),excerpt Kean and Macready in Othello, Th e Times (1832) Kean and Macready, in Othello, Examiner A. Bunn, Th e Stage Both Before and Behind the Curtain (1840), excerpt Management at the Patent Theatres Report from the Select Committee on Dramatic Literature with the Minutes of the Evidence (18312) J. R. Anderson, An Actors Life (1902), excerpt Macreadys Reminiscences, and Selections from His Diaries and Letters,lS†