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David Garrick (1717-1779) with his wife: portrait by William Hogarth 1757. Picture courtesy of the Yorck Project.

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[Abington, Frances,] Life of Mrs. Abington (Formerly Miss Barton) Celebrated Comic Actress, with full accounts of her various performances in the theatres of London and Dublin; including also interesting notes upon the history of the Irish stage, and copious notices, anecdotes, and criticisms of her theatrical contemporaries, By the Editor of  'The Life of Quin', London: Reader, 1888.

Adolphus, John, Memoirs of John Bannister, London: R. Bentley, 1839.

Asleson,  Robyn, ed., A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists, Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1999.

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Barnes, Thomas, "Kean as Richard III," in Ward, A. C., ed. Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism XVII-XX Centuries, London: Oxford University Press, 1945, 96-100.

Beauclerk, Charles, Nell Gwyn: A Biography, London: Macmillan, 2005.

Bellamy, George Anne, An Apology for the Life  of George Anne Bellamy, 6 vols., London: John Bell, 1785.

Betterton, Thomas [?], The History of the English Stage from the Restauration [sic] to the Present Time. Including the Lives, Characters and Amours Of the most Eminent Actors and Actresses. London: E. Curll, 1741.

Black, James, "An Augustan Stage-History: Nahum Tate's King Lear",  Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theater Research 6 (1967): 36-54.

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Boaden, James, Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons Interspersed with Anecdotes of Authors and Actors, London: Henry Colburn, 1827.

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Caines, Michael, ed., Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part 1, Volume 1: David Garrick, London: Pickering and Chatto. 2007. 

Campbell, Thomas, Life of Mrs. Siddons , 2 vols, London: Effingham Wilson, 1834.

Charke, Charlotte, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq.) Written by Herself, London: W. Reeve, A. Dodd, and E. Cooke, 1755.

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Child, H. The Shakespearean Productions of John Philip Kemble, London: Oxford University Press, 1935.

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Davis, Jim, ed., Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part 2: Volume I, Edmund Kean, London: Pickering and Chatto: 2007. 

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Downer, Alan S., The Eminent Tragedian, William Charles Macready. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1966.

Dunlap, William, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke Esq. London: Printed for Henry Colburn, British and Foreign Public Library, Conduit-Street, Hanover-Square; and sold by George Goldie, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin, 1813. top

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Edmond, Mary. Rare Sir William Davenant. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1987.

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Ffrench, Yvonne, Mrs. Siddons: Tragic Actress, London: D. Verscoyle, l954.

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FitzSimmons, Raymond. Edmund Kean: Fire from Heaven. New York: Dial, 1976.

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Gildon, Charles. The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton. London: Robert Gosling, 1710. Reprinted: New York: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1970.

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Grebanier, David, Then Came Each Actor, New York: David McKay, 1975. top

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Hazlitt, William. Criticism and Dramatic Essays of the English Stage. London: G. Routledge, 1851.

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Hunt, Leigh. Leigh Hunt's Dramatic Criticism 1808-1831, ed. Lawrence H. Houtchens and Carolyn W. Houtchens. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1949.

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J.  Joncus, Berta, "A Likeness Where None Was to be Found: Imagining Kitty Clive, (1711-1785)," Music in Art, 34.1-2 (2009), pp. 89-106.top

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Kahan, Jeffrey, The Cult of Kean, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 

John Philip Kemble (1757-1823)

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Lowe, R. W., Thomas Betterton, London: Kegan Paul, 1891 [reprint 1972]. top

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Macready, William Charles, Macready's Reminiscences and Selections from his Diaries and Letters, ed. F. Pollock(1875).

Manvell, Roger, Sarah Siddons: Portrait of an Actress. London: Heinemann, 1971.

Marshall, Gail, general editor, Lives of Shakespeare Actors, 3 vols., London: Pickering and Chatto: 2009. Volume I: David Garrick, Charles Macklin, and Margaret Woffington. Volume II: Sarah Siddons; Volume III: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps, and William Charles Macready.

Matthews, Brander,  Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States, from the Days of David Garrick to the Present Time, ed. Brander Mathews and Laurence Hutton, New York: Cassell & Company, ca. 1886, 5 v. Reprint, Boston: L. C. Page, 1900. 

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[Quin, James,] Anon., Life of Mr. James Quin, Comedian, London: S. Bladon, 1766. top

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Raby, Peter, ed., Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part 2: Volume 3, Harriet Smithson, London: Pickering and Chatto: 2007.

Robinson, Mary, Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Written by Herself, Completed and Edited by her Daughter Maria and Published in 1801. Reprint: London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1930.

Rogers, Pat, "'Towering Beyond Her Sex': Stature and Sublimity in the Achievement of Sarah Siddons," in Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660-1820 , ed. Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski (Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 1991), 48-67.  top

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Schoch, Richard W. Shakespeare's Victorian Stage: Performing History in the Theatre of Charles Kean, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Shattuck, Charles, John Philip Kemble: Prompt Books, Folger Facsimiles, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1974.

Shaughnessy, Nicola and Robert, eds., Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part 1, Volume 3: Margaret Woffington, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007. 

Siddons, Sarah, Reminiscences, London: Henry Colburn, 1831 [re-edited by W. Van Campp, 1942].

                         Sarah Siddons as Queen Katherine in Henry VIII 

Steele, Elizabeth, The Memoirs of Mrs. Sophia Baddley Late of Drury Lane, 6 vols., London: 1787.

Stone, George W. and G. M. Kahrl. David Garrick: A Critical Biography, Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1979.  top

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Tomalin, Claire, Mrs. Jordan's Profession: the Story of a Great Actress and Future King, London: Viking, 1994.  top

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Van Lennep, William, ed., The Reminiscences of Sarah Kemble Siddons, Cambridge: Widener Library, 1942. top

W.   West, Shearer, "Siddons, Celebrity and Regality: Portraiture and the Body of the Ageing Actress," in Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody, eds., Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660-2000, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 191-213 .top

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Y.   Young, Julian Charles, "Others - and Mrs. Siddons," in Ward, A. C., ed. Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism XVII-XX Centuries, London: Oxford University Press, 1945, 89-92.  top

Z.   Zesmer, David M.,  Guide to Shakespeare, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1976.

David Garrick delivering his Ode to Shakespeare at Drury Lane Theatre in 1769. Garrick's Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon earlier that year, and this later program in London, repeated 88 times, greatly fostered Shakespeare's celebrity. Engraving by J. Lodge.