Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 2

Series Editor: Gail Marshall, Consulting Editor: Tetsuo Kishi, Volume Editors: Robert Sawyer (Charles Kean), Julia Swindells & David Francis Taylor (Samuel Phelps), Richard Foulkes (William Charles Macready)

• LIVES OF SHAKESPEARIAN ACTORS III VOLUME 2: SAMUEL PHELPS Introduction, Old Sadler’s Wells and the Breaking of the Monopoly ‘The History of Sadler’s Wells’, Era (1866) Theatre Regulation Act (1843) ‘National Anti-Corn-Law League … at Sadler’s Wells’, Morning Chronicle (1843) W. M. Phelps and J. Forbes-Robertson, Life and Life-Work of Samuel Phelps (1886), excerpts Handbill distributed by Phelps and Warner, Intellectuals and Illiterates in Islington, J. R. Towse, Sixty Years of the Th eater (1916), excerpt, C. Dickens and R. Horne, ‘Shakespeare and Newgate’, Household Words (1851) W. M. Phelps and J. Forbes-Robertson, Life and Life-Work of Samuel Phelps (1886), excerpt, ‘Dear Shakspeare’, Punch (1844), ‘Shakspere at Sadler’s Wells’, Punch (1844), ‘Our Dramatic Correspondent’, Punch (1862) W. M. Phelps and J. Forbes-Robertson, Life and Life-Work of Samuel Phelps (1886), excerpt, J. and E. Coleman, Memoirs of Samuel Phelps, excerpt (1886). Sadler’s Wells versus the Princess’s Theatre, ‘Sadler’s Wells Theatre’, Morning Chronicle (1857) (1886), excerpt Productions at the Wells: Rescuing the National Drama ‘Audacious Interference with Vested Rights’, Punch (1845) (1886), excerpts, H. Morley, Journal of a London Playgoer (1891), excerpts, T. Taylor, ‘Mr Phelps and the Fool’s Revenge’, Theatre (1878) The Missionary of Dramatic ‘Legitimacy’ says his Farewells ‘Mr Phelps and Sadler’s Wells’, Era (1862), C. Scott, ‘Sadler’s Wells Th eatre’, The Times (1862), S. Lee, Shakespeare and the Modern Stage (1906), Phelps on the Provincial Circuit, 1826–37, W. M. Phelps and J. Forbes-Robertson, Life and Life-Work of Samuel Phelps (1886), excerpt ‘Exeter Theatre’, Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post (1836) ‘Exeter Theatre’, Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post (1837) Phelps on the London Stage, 1837–44 ‘The Theatres’, Satirist; or, the Censor of the Times (1837) ‘Theatricals’, Age (1837) ‘Haymarket Theatre’, Morning Chronicle (1837) Phelps and Macready: Friends or Foes? The Diaries of William Charles Macready, ed. W. Toynbee (1912), ; excerptsTradition, Mannerism and the Phelpsean Style J. and E. Coleman, Memoirs of Samuel Phelps, excerpt (1886) D. Cook, ‘Mr Phelps’, World (1876) H. B. Baker, History of the London Stage and its Famous Players (1904) F. Harrison, Autobiographic Memoirs (1911), excerpt 211 Phelps the Tragedian J. R. Towse, Sixty Years of the Th eater (1916), excerpt C. Scott, ‘Drury Lane Theatre’, The Times (1863) H. Morley, Journal of a London Playgoer (1866), excerpts Phelps the Comedian D. Jerrold, ‘Bully Bottom’, Punch (1853) H. Morley, Journal of a London Playgoer (1866), excerpts J. R. Towse, Sixty Years of the Th eater (1916), excerpt, Phelps and the Shakespeare Tercentenary, S. Phelps, Tercentenary Celebration of the Birth of Shakespeare [1864] C. L. Kenney, Mr Phelps and the Critics of His Correspondence with the Stratford Committee (1864) ‘The Shaksperian Commemoration in London … Proceedings on Primrose Hill’, Reynold’s Newspaper (1864) ‘The Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration … London’, The Times (1864) Women out of the Limelight ‘Important Theatrical County Court Case’, Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper (1850) H. Faucit, On Some of Shakespeare’s Female Characters (1885), excerpt ‘So Falls the Last of the Brave Troop’ W. M. Phelps and J. Forbes-Robertson, The Life and Life-Work of Samuel Phelps (1886), excerpts J. and E. Coleman, Memoirs of Samuel Phelps (1886), excerpt C. Scott, ‘Mr Phelps’, Theatre (1878) ‘So Falls the Last of the Brave Troop’, Punch (1878) ‘Sadler’s Wells under the Hammer’, Era (1875) A. Cooper, ‘The Wells’, Era (1893) H. Simms, ‘Samuel Phelps’, Era (1893) Editorial Notes