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The English dramatic critics: an anthology, 1660-1932
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Note / James Agate
How the early actors transformed themselves in their parts / Richard Flecknoe
Mrs. Barry, Mrs. Bracegirdle and Doggett in Love for Love, On the death of Betterton, On Wilks and Cibber / Sir Richard Steele
His fun about the Italian opera, On the history of the Italian opera / Joseph Addison
The character of Falstaff and a cut scene, On Barry as Richard III, Hamlet compared with its original: where Shakespeare erred, Mrs. Behn's The Rover shocks the ladies and delights the men, On The Tragedy of Douglas, The critic on a young actor's first and fiery Tryal, How Mrs. Centlivre kept her secret, On Congreve's wit in Love for Love, On The Provoked Wife and The Millers, On The Way of the World, David Garrick compared with Woodward in The Busy Body / The London Chronicle
Remarks on our theatres, study of Mlle. Clairon / Oliver Goldsmith
Its critical examen of Garrick₂s abilities as an actor / The Theatrical Review
On the profession of a player / James Boswell
David Garrick and other contemporaries in Macbeth / Francis Gentleman
David Garrick as Lear, Mrs. Yates as Jane Shore / Henry Bate
Mrs. Siddons and her roles / Thomas Holcroft
Mrs. Siddons appears as Lady Macbeth / John Taylor
Fiery criticisms of Ryder, Mrs. Siddons, Kemble and Bensley / The Devil's Pocket-book
On Mr. Pope
A robustious fellow, who tears a passion to tatters, On Mr. Matthew's comic roles, On the Death of Elliston / Leigh Hunt
On the acting of Munden / Charles Lamb
On Edmund Kean's Richard, On the art of Mrs. Siddons, On Kean's Lear / William Hazlitt
On Mr. Grimaldi / The theatrical looker-on
Macready as Hamlet, On Macready's production of King Lear / John Forster
Was Macready a good actor?, On the Phedre of Rachel, On Lemaitre's great roles, On Fechter and Ristori / George Henry Lewes
Samuel Phelps at Sadler's wells, On Fechter's Othello / Henry Morley
Signor Salvini and other players of Othello, On the comedie Francaise, On Sarah Bernhardt in Hernani, On the triumph of Bernhardt, On Alfred de Musset's dramas, Le barbier de Seville, Andromaque, etc. / Joseph Knight
Henry Irving's Hamlet, Irving's Louis XI, On Ellen Terry's new Olivia / Clement Scott
Sarah Bernhardt as Phedre / W.T. Arnold
On George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the man, On Pinero's The notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, Mrs. Ebbsmith again / William Archer
Duse and Bernhardt / George Bernard Shaw
On Benson's Richard II / C.E. Montague
On Rejane as Sapho / J.T. Grein
On Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma, On Zaza, A new theatrical adventure started with King Lear / A.B. Walkley
Sarah, Henry Irving / Max Beerbohm
On Ibsen's The master builder / C.H. Herford
On Coriolanus and Love's labour's lost at Stratford / Allan Monkhouse
On Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion, On Chekov's Uncle Vanya / Desmond MacCarthy
On Clemence Dane's Will Shakespeare, On Dryden's All for love / St. John Ervine
Studies of Eleonora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt / Arthur Symons
No more parades, On Antony and Cleopatra at the Old Vic, Tribute to Sydney Morgan / Ivor Brown
On Shakespeare's clowns / Ashley Dukes
On Sean O'Casey's The silver tassie, On Godfrey Tearle's Hamlet, On Andre Obey's Le viol de lucrece / Charles Morgan
On Oedipus Tyrannus
Produced by the O.U.D.S. / Crompton Rhodes
On John Barrymore's Hamlet, On C.B. Cochran's production of Helen! / James Agate.
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