Series Editor: Gail Marshall, Consulting Editor: Tetsuo Kishi, Volume Editors: Jim Davis (Edmund Kean), Lisa A. Freeman (Sarah Siddons), Peter Raby (Harriet Smithson).

• VOLUME 1: EDMUND KEAN Introduction, Early Critical Accounts of Kean, The Talents of Edmund Kean Delineated (1817) Kean’s Biographers on Kean in Shakespeare; Barry Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall), The Life of Edmund Kean (1835); Actors on Kean; Michael Kelly, Reminiscences (1826); William Charles Macready, Macready’s Reminiscences, ed. Sir Frederick Pollock (1875); Joe Cowell, Thirty Years Passed Among the Players in England and America (1845); Frances Anne Kemble, Records of a Girlhood (1880) Dramatists on Kean; Thomas Dibdin, Reminiscences (1827) George Raymond and Alfred Bunn; Edward Stirling, Old Drury Lane: Fifty Years’ Recollections of Author, Actor and Manager (1881) Diarists, Literary and Artistic Figures on Kean; Lord Byron, Thomas Moore and Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Henry Crabb Robinson Th e London Theatre 1811–1866: Selections from the Diary of Henry Crabb Robinson; Mary and Charles Cowden Clarke and Joseph Farington; Washington Irving and Charles Leslie; Charles Robert Leslie, Autobiographical Recollections (1860); Melesina Trench, Hesther Piozzi and Mary Berry Hester Lynch Th rale, Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi; Mary Berry, Extracts from the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry, 1783 to 1852; North American Perspectives; Richard Henry Dana, William Clapp Jnr and Joe Cowell; Kean’s Acting; John Genest, John Taylor and William Robson; George Henry Lewes, On Actors and the Art of Acting (1875); Kean Close-Up; James Winston and William/Catherine Oxberry; Newspaper and Journal Reviews; William Hazlitt; Examiner, 7 January 1816; The Times, 21 October 1817; London Magazine ( January 1820); London Magazine (February 1820); Leigh Hunt; Examiner, 26 February 1815; Examiner, 30 April 1820; Dramatic Essays by Leigh Hunt, ed. William Archer and Robert W. Lowe (1894); John Keats, in Champion, 21 December 1817; Thomas Noon Talfourd, in New Monthly Magazine (March 1831); Miscellaneous Criticism; Morning Post, 27 January 1814; Examiner, 27 February 1814; Examiner, 18 September 1814; Morning Herald, 14 March 1814; Morning Herald, 9 May 1814; Theatrical Inquisitor (February 1814) to Theatrical Inquisitor (May 1820); London Magazine ( January 1823); Decline, Last Appearance and Obituaries