Their Majesties' Servants
Subtitle: or Annals of the English stage
Publisher: Francis A. Niccolls & Co.
Published: 1888
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Notes: A date does not appear on this work. However, another edition is dated 1888 on davidbrassrarebooks.com.
Table of contents: title: v. 1.; title: Prologue; title: The decline and fall of the players; title: The "boy actresses" and the "young ladies"; title: The gentlemen of the king's company; title: Thomas Betterton; title: "Exeunt" and "enter"; title: Elizabeth Barry; title: "Their first appearance on this stage"; title: The dramatic poets; title: Professional authors; title: The dramatic authoresses; title: The audiences of the seventeenth century; title: A seven years' rivalry; title: The united and the disunited companies; title: Union, strength, prosperity; title: Competition, and what came of it; title: The progress of James Quin, and decline of Barton Booth; title: Barton Booth; title: v. 2.; title: Mrs. Oldfield; title: From the death of Anne Oldfield to that of Wilks; title: Robert Wilks; title: Enter, Garrick; title: Garrick, Quin, Mrs. Porter; title: Rivalry; and enter, Spranger Barry; title: The old Dublin Theatre; title: Garrick and Quin; Garrick and Barry; title: The audiences of 1700-50; title: Exit, James Quin; title: England and Scotland; title: Margaret Woffington; title: Colley Cibber; title: England and Ireland; title: Ryan, Rich, and O'Brien; title: Susanna Maria Cibber; title: Reappearance of Spranger Barry; retirement of Mrs. Pritchard; title: The last years of Garrick and Barry; title: David Garrick; title: Spranger and Anne Barry; title: Kitty Clive, Woodward, Shuter; title: Samuel Foote; title: Of authors, and particularly of condemned authors; title: v. 3.; title: The audiences of the last half of the eighteenth century; title: Charles Macklin; title: A bevy of ladies; but chiefly Mrs. Bellamy, Miss Farren, Miss Abington, and "Perdita"; title: A group of gentlemen; title: John Henderson; title: Sarah Siddons; title: John Kemble; title: George Frederick Cooke; title: Master Betty; title: Stage costume and stage tricks; title: Prologue, epilogue; dedications and benefits; title: Old stagers departing; title: New ideas; new theatres; new authors; and the new actors; title: Edmund Kean; title: Edmund Kean, continued; title: Epilogue