Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 3: Helen Faucit, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris and Fanny Kemble by Their Contemporaries

LIVES OF SHAKESPEARIAN ACTORS III VOLUME 3: FANNY KEMBLE Introduction I. Fanny Kemble on her Debut and Playing Juliet Frances Anne Kemble, Record of a Girlhood (1878), excerpts II. Juliet: Newspaper Reviews ‘Covent-Garden Theatre’, Morning Chronicle (1829) ‘Covent Garden Theatre’, Standard (1829) ‘Covent Garden’, London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences (1829) ‘Covent-Garden Theatre’, The Times (1829) ‘Covent-Garden Theatre’, Morning Post (1829) ‘Covent-Garden Theatre’, Morning Chronicle (1829) ‘Theatricals’, Age (1829) ‘Covent-Garden Theatre’, The Times (1829) ‘Covent Garden’, Dramatic Magazine (1829) ‘Covent Garden Theatre’, The Theatrical Observer (1829) III. Juliet: Extended Commentaries [Thomas Noon Talfourd], ‘The Drama: Covent-Garden Theatre’,Monthly Magazine (1829) Anna Jameson, Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad (1839), excerpt Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt: Dramatic Essays, ed. W. Archer and R. W. Lowe (1894), excerpts IV. Juliet: Private Commentaries Sir Thomas Lawrence, Letters to FAK on her performance as Juliet (n. d.) V. Poems Eliza Emmerson, ‘Sonnet Addressed to Miss Fanny Kemble on her First Appearance at Covent Garden in the Character of “Juliet”’, Morning Post (1829) ‘To Miss Kemble’, Morning Post (1829) ‘To Miss Fanny Kemble’, Morning Post (1830) VI. Portia, Merchant of Venice ‘Covent-Garden Theatre’, Morning Chronicle (1830) ‘Theatrical Examiner’, Examiner (1830) ‘Covent Garden Theatre’, Theatrical Observer (1830) ‘Covent-Garden’, Belle Assemblée; or Court and Fashionable Magazine (1830) ‘Theatricals’, Age (1830) ‘The Drama’ (1830) VII. Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing ‘Covent-Garden Theatre’, Morning Post (1831) ‘Theatricals’, Age (1831) ‘The Drama’, World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons (1831) ‘Covent Garden’, La Belle Assemblée; or Court and Fashionable Magazine (1831) ‘Theatricals’, Belle Assemblée; or, Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine (1831) VIII. Kemble as Constance, King John Leigh Hunt, Dramatic Essays, ed. W. Archer and R. W. Lowe (1894) ‘Theatricals’, Age (1831) ‘Theatrical Examiner’, Examiner (1831) Anna Jameson IX. Katherine, in Henry VIII ‘The Drama’, Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle (1831) Anna Jameson, ‘Critique on Queen Katherine’, manuscript letter to FAK (n. d.) X. Kemble’s Return to the Stage ‘Theatricals’, Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper (1847) ‘Provincial Theatricals’, Era (1847) XI. Shakespeare Readings ‘Mrs Butler’s Readings’, The Times (1848) ‘Theatres and Music’, John Bull (1850) ‘St James’s Theatre’, Morning Post (1850) ‘St James’s Theatre’, The Times (1850) ‘Mrs Fanny Kemble’s “Readings” in London’ (1850) ‘Mrs Fanny Kemble’s Readings’, Caledonian Mercury (1851) ‘Public Amusements at Liverpool’, Era (1851) ‘Theatres &c. St James’s. Mrs Fanny Kemble’s Readings of Shakspere’, Era (1851) ‘Mrs Fanny Kemble’s Readings’, Morning Post (1851) Mrs Fanny Kemble’s Reading from Shakspere’, Essex Standard (1852) ‘Theatres and Music’, John Bull (1855) ‘Dramatic Readings’, Englishwoman’s Review and Drawing Room Journal (1857) XII. Private Commentaries Henry S. Mower, Reminiscences of a Hotel Man (n. d.), excerpt James Thomas Fields, ‘Written after having Heard Mrs. Kemble Read “The Tempest”’ (n. d.) XIII. General Accounts: Critical Evaluations S. D. L., ‘A Memoir of the Dramatic Life of Miss Fanny Kemble’(1833) Cornwell Baron Wilson, Our Actresses: Or, Glances at Stage Favourites, Past and Present, 2 vols (1844), excerpt ‘Miss Fanny Kemble and Her Critics’, Fraser’s Magazine (1835) Brander Matthews and Laurence Hutton, Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States (1886), excerpt Charles Eyre Pascoe, ‘Fanny Kemble’ (1880) W. Clark Russell, Representative Actors. A Collection of Criticisms, Anecdotes, Personal Descriptions (n. d.), excerpt XIV. General Accounts: Diaries and Memoirs William Charles Macready, The Diaries of William Charles Macready (1912), excerpt Anne Thackeray Ritchie, ‘Mrs. Kemble’, Chapters f om Some Memoirs (1894), excerpt Henry James, Essays in London and Elsewhere (1893), excerpt XV. Obituaries

Series Editor: Gail Marshall, Consulting Editor: Tetsuo Kishi, Volume Editors: Christy Desmet (Helen Faucit), Janice Norwood (Lucia Elizabeth Verstris), Katherine Newey (Fanny Kemble)

Features three female actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare