it was never careless, or slovenly, but always well thought out and elaborately finished, and if not great was satisfactory.
He commenced his career with the belief that an actor should be a gentleman, and during the forty years that he pursued it he practiced that belief. He claimed no immunity on account of his genius, believing, with Thackeray, that the higher the genius the higher the standard of conduct. Vagabondage which in early times attached to his Majesties' Servants never sullied the name of William Charles Macready,-last of England's great actors, whom her greatest Laureate dismissed to private life on his retirement from the stage in his sixtieth year.
"Farewell, Macready, since to-night we part;
Full-handed thunders often have confessed
Thy power, well used to move the public breast.
We thank thee with our voice, and from the heart.
Farewell, Macready, since to-night we part;
Go, take thine honors home; rank with the best
Garrick, and statelier Kemble, and the rest,
Who made a nation purer through their Art.
Thine is it that our drama does not die,
Nor flicker down to brainless pantomime,
And those gilt-gauds men-children swarm to see.
Farewell, Macready; moral, grave, sublime;
Our Shakespeare's bland and universal eye
Dwells pleased, through thrice a hundred years, on thee.”
Abington, Mrs., life and career, 208-11.
Actor, qualifications for, 23; the only one
elected a member of White's, 27; com-
bination to make a great one, 55.
"Agis," Home's, 83.
Ailesbury, Lord, and Mrs. Siddons, 243.
"Aimida," by Mallett's daughter, 68.
Arne, Tom, and his sister, 51.
Arnould, Sophie, S3.
Aristophanes, 127.
Audiences, treatment of, by Mrs. Woffing-
ton, 10; liberty taken with, by Holland
and Powell, 148; of the last half of the 18th
century, 163-183; encore a prologue, 178;
French, 179; the trunkmaker, 180; Foote
on English, 182.
Anthors, list of, with their plays, from 1776
to 1800, 136-143; condemned authors, and
how they bore the condemnation, 144-
162 first fashion of calling for, 174; dra-
matic, of the early part of the 19th cen-
tury, 369-375.
mark, 166; sketch of life and career, 199–
203.
Bensley, actor and barrack-master, 226-7.
Bentley, his "Philodamus," 145; Bentley, at
the condemnation of his own play, 171.
Benefits, incidents of, 316, 332, 336.
Betterton and Garrick, comparative labors
of, 90; honor rendered to Betterton, 94.
Betty, Master, 296–301.
Bisse, Rev. P., 17.
Bickerstaffe, his operas, 37.
Blanchard, 351.
Booth and Quin, in Cato, 74.
Boaden, his "Aurelio and Miranda," 146.
Brandon, Countess of, patronizes the Irish
stage, 40.
Brand, Hannah, dramatist and actress, 149.
Brunton, Louisa, 204.
Brereton (actor), inspired by Mrs. Siddons,
Brooke, Mrs., dramatist, 148.
Brown, Anthony, his quarrel with Quin, 155.
Brown, Miss (vocalist), her effect on a sen-
timental captain, 181.
Buckingham, Sheffield, Duke of, on Cibber,
26.
Bulkeley, Mrs., her acts and audiences, 230.
Baddeley, Mrs. career of, 197-8; Baddeley, Burgoyne, his "Maid of the Oaks," 72.
Mr., 416.
Baillie, Joanna, dramatist, 149.
Bannister, J., accused of disloyalty, 167;
Charles, 342; John, 342-44.
Barry, his attraction in Dublin, 88-9; last
nights, 58; his decay, 74; depreciation of,
by Walpole, 74; comment on Garrick, SS;
estimation of Garrick, 100; sketch of his
life and professional career, 96-103.
Barry, Mrs., re-appears after her husband's
death, 103; maiden name, Miss Street,
account of, 103-4; marries Dancer, an
actor, 104; married to Spranger Barry,
104; prefers comedy to tragedy, 104;
married to Crawford, barrister and actor,
105; rivalry with Mrs. Siddons, 105;
original characters, 106; her parallel be-
tween the Garrick and Kemble schools,
Barsanti, Miss, aversion to male costume,
196.
Barresford, Mrs. (Bulkeley), original Julia,
204.
Barnwell, George, as played by Ross, 223.
Beard, actor, marries daughter of the Earl
of Waldegrave, 46.
Bellamy, Mrs., arouses the King of Den-
Burke and Garrick, 84.
Buxton, Jedediah, 87.
Byron, Lord, and Mrs. Bellamy, 200.
Cadogan, Dr. Garrick's remark to, on his
death-bed, 93.
Calcraft, Mr. and Mrs. Bellamy, 201.
Canning, Mrs., married Reddish, 219; her
career as an actress, 219, 244.
Canning, George, the statesman, son of the
actress, 221.
Cautherley, alleged son of Garrick, 219.
"Careless Husband," Cibber's account of,
21-2.
Carmontelle, his double portrait of Garrick,
84.
"Caractacus," by Mason-by D'Egville, 145.
Cargill, Mrs., tragic point in Macheath, 150.
Carlton House, actors at, 307.
"Castle Spectre," Sheridan's estimate of, 151.
Catherine, Czarina, invites Garrick to Prus-
sia, 85.
Catley, Miss, conduct in front of the house,
Celisia, Madame, 68.
Centlivre, Mrs., impatient under failure, 152.
Charke, Mrs., her melancholy career, 30, 31.
Charles I. portrayed in Home's "Agis," 33.
Charlotte, Queen, at the play, 168; in state,
170; appoints Mrs. Siddons preceptress in
English reading to the princesses, 248.
Chesterfield, his advice to Dodsley, 85;
thought Garrick poor in comedy, 79; on
Garrick's marriage, 90; on Barry, 101.
"Chinese Festival," cause of a riot, 164.
Cholmondeley, Hon. Mrs. (Mary Woffing-
ton), 8.
Chudleigh, Miss, at the opera, 173.
Churchill, abused by Foote, 133.
Cibber, Theophilus, his wit, 29; death, 81.
Cibber, Colley, sketch of his life, 15-32;
instructs his daughter-in-law, 52.
Cibber (Susanna Maria), sketch of life of,
51-56; her original characters, 53; salary,
56.
Clairon, Malle., and Garrick, 83; off the
stage, 263.
Clairval de Passy, Viscount and Vis-
countess (actors), 208.
"Clandestine Marriage" (Colman and Gar-
rick), 36.
Clarence, Duke of, dresses Bannister, 169.
"Cleone," Dodsley's, 34–5.
Clive, Mrs., first appearance as Ismenes, 108;
her marriage, when Miss Raftor, with Mr.
Clive, 108; testimony to, by Fielding, 108;
by Isaac Reed, 110; her career and char-
acteristics, 109; a mimic, 109; attempts
serious parts, 110; her farewell, 110; Wal-
pole provides a home for her, 111; scenes
at Strawberry Hill, 111-12; her opinion of
Mrs. Siddons, 112; original characters and
death, 113; as Portia, gives imitations of
the leading lawyers, 188.
Cole, Mrs., idea of, taken from Reed, 131.
Colman, his opinion of the Fool in "King
Lear," 68; and Garrick, 87; his delicacy
of stage-feeling, 205.
Comedies of the 18th century, 146.
Commons, House of, suspends rule respect-
ing strangers in favor of Garrick, 84;
compliment to Master Betty, 299.
Converts, theatrical, Mrs. Woffington, 11;
Melmoth, Mrs., 313.
Cocke, G. F., life of, 286-295.
Cork Theatre, incidents at, 176.
Copenhagen Theatre, hissing forbidden at,
Critics in Cibber's time, 26.
Crouch, Mrs., and John Kemble, 266.
Cumberland, his "Timon," 68; "West In-
dian," 70; his merits and defects, 70
"Brothers," 70; "Wheel of Fortune," 70:
his "Choleric Man," 72; his "Carmelite,"
145; "Jew," 147; defence of himself, 162;
his description of Garrick and Quin in
the "Fair Penitent," 80-1.
Curtis, Mrs., alleged sister of Mrs. Siddons,
247.
Davies, on Garrick and Quin in the same
play, 79.
Deaths-Woffington, Mrs., stricken by par-
alysis on the stage, 12; Cibber, Theoph-
ilus, drowned, 31; in what company,
81; Delane, allegedly of broken heart, at
Garrick's mimicry of him, 76; Middleton,
of destitution, 103; Mossop, of pride and
want, 107; Baddeley, when dressed for
Moses, 230; Palmer, on the stage at
Liverpool, 284.
Dedications, samples of dramatic, 323–332.
De Camp, Miss, dramatist and actress, 149;
(De Fleury), 281.
Deighton, actor and artist, 312.
Delaney, Mrs., describes Garrick at home,
92; on Barry, 97.
Delaney, Dr., 56.
Delavals, Foote's intimacy with, 120, 126,
163, 172, 134.
Denmark, King of, at the play, 166-7.
Derby, Earl of, 207.
Descendants from actresses-Earls of Mun-
ster and Lords De l'Isle, from Mrs. Jordan
and William IV., 347; Wilton, from Earl
of Derby and Miss Farren, Countess of
Derby, 208; Bellinghams in Ireland, from
Mary Woffington and Hon. Mr. Chol.
mondeley, 9.
Desdemona, by Mrs. Siddons, 255.
Desnoyers teaches Barry dancing, 100.
Dexter, on the night of his debut, 182.
Dict of actors, 101, 107; Garrick's, 239; Hen
derson's, 239.
Digges, a speech encored, 88; alleged con
duct towards, of Foote, 132; and Mrs.
Bellamy, 201; the original Norval, 226.
"Discovery," Mrs. Sheridan's, why revived,
86.
Costume, Mrs. Lisley's in Arionelli, 196; of
the Barrys in Dublin, 98, 101; Wood-Dow, as dramatist, 67.
ward's, 115; Bannister's dress rearranged Dodd, actor, 229, 230.
by the Duke of Clarence, 169; Catley, Dowton, 350.
Miss, in Macheath, 198; Belfille, splendor
of her stage wardrobe, 203; Mrs. Robin-
son, as Statira, 215; Kemble's in Othello,
266; anachronisms in, exemplified, 302,
309, 316.
Coventry, Earl of, and Sarah Kemble, 242.
Cowley, Mrs. (Anna Matilda") originator of
"At Homes," 148.
Cradock's "Zobeide," 68.
Craven, Lady, "in form," 177; her "Princess
of Georgia," 179.
Crawford, Mrs.; Mrs. Siddons's jealousy of,
246.
Dublin Theatre, rudeness and gallantry at,
175; a night in the, 97.
Ducis, double denouement to his "Othello,"
159.
Duclos, Madame, 182.
Du Fresne, 182.
Duels-Baddeley and George Garrick, 197;
Mossop and a Major, 175; Aikin and John
Kemble, 225, 269; Baddeley challenges
Foote, 231.
Duncan, Miss (Mrs. Davison), 352.
Drury Lane, grand night at, in 1751, 168.
Farren, Miss (Countess of Derby), her life
and career, 204-8.
"Fate of Sparta," Mrs. Cowley's, epigram
on, 148.
Fielding, his indifference under failure, 154.
Fitzhenry, Mrs., 812.
Flecnoe, as a condemned author, 151.
Foote, worsted at joke-making, 183; -, life
and character, 119–135; on Garrick, 75, 76;
mimicry of, 81.
Fox, Charles, and O'Brien the actor, 48; as
Horatio, 177.
Franklin, Dr., his “Matilda,” 73.
Francis, Miss, 265.
French stage, 361.
French actors, traits of,-Rachel, 62; Lekain,
81; Clairon, 83; Arnould, Sophie, 83; Pre-
ville, 88; Montfleury, 86; Du Fresne, 182;
Malle. Fleury (Mdme. Sainville), 208.
Garrick, Mrs., a guest of Bp. Porteus, 94;
refuses an offer of marriage from Lord
Monboddo, 94.
Garrick and Mrs. Woffington, 7; his last
night, 78; sketch of his professional career,
75-95; his anonymous critics, 77; founds
his "Lethe," on Miller's "Hospital for
Fools," 156; his house assailed, 166.
Gay, described by Cibber, 25; reading his
condemned play, at Leicester House, 153.
George III., stage jokes at his expense, 167;
indirect cause of Mrs. Cibber's death, 54;
fired at by Hatfield, 169.
Gloucester, Duke and Duchess of, at the
play, 177.
Glover, Mrs., 353.
Godwin, his " Antonio," 144.
Goldsmith, his "Good-Natured Man," 57,
67; "She Stoops to Conquer," its first
night, 70; unsuccessful dramatist, 157.
Goodman, opinion of Cibber, 17, 22.
Goodere, family of, 119.
Graham, Mrs. (afterwards Mrs. Yates), 198.
Greathead, Mr., and Mrs. Siddons, 242.
Greathead, B., dramatist, 161.
Green, Mrs., the original Mrs. Malaprop, 197.
Griffith, Mrs., her "Platonic Wife," 148.
Grimm, his criticism on Garrick, 85.
Grimaldi, Signor, 37.
"Guardian," Garrick's, 84.
Gunnings, Misses, 5.
Hallam, killed by Macklin, 186.
Hamilton, Mrs., 312.
Hardy, French dramatist, 160.
Harlequin, the old actors, on, and players
of, 44-5.
Hartley, Mrs., 69; her love-passage with
Gentleman Smith, 69; her death, 197.
Havard, death of, 66; effect of his "Charles
I.," 66.
Haymarket, catastrophe at, 169; the old
lower gallery at, 164.
"Heiress," Mozeen's, 34.
Henderson, John, life and stage career of,
235-240; Kemble's opinion of, 275.
"Henry VII.," by Macklin, 188.
Hill, Dr., his aspersions answered by Gar-
rick, 89.
Hill, Aaron, under condemnation, 152.
Hollingsworth, actor, accident to, 181.
Holland and Powell, their joint career, 66;
Holland's funeral, 180.
Home, fate of his "Fatal Discovery" and
"Alonzo," 67.
Hoole, a dramatist, 67, 78; generous be-
havior of, 160.
Hopkins, Priscilla (Mrs. Brereton, after
wards Mrs. John Kemble), 267.
Horton, Miss P. (Mrs. German Reed), 68.
Home, at the representation of "Douglas,"
297.
Hull, his Edward and Eleonora," 78.
Inchbald, Mrs., dramatist and actress, 148-9,
and John Kemble, 266.
Individuals referred to in dramatic pieces:-
Charles I. in "Agis," 33; Edward III. as
Maximin, in "Siege of Aquileia," 36;
Douglas, Mother, as Mrs. Cole, by Foote,
122; Whitfield, Rev. G., as Shift (Minor),
by Foote, 122; Kingston, Duchess of, as
Kitty Crocodile, by Foote, 123; Faulkner,
Alderman ("Orators "), by Foote, 123;
Newcastle, Duke of, as Matthew Mug
("Mayor of Garratt"), by Foote, 123;
Melcombe, Lord, as Sir Thomas Lofty
("Patron"), by Foote, 123; Arne, Dr., as
Catgut ("Commissary"), by Foote, 124;
Brocklesby, Dr., as Squib ("Devil on Two
Sticks"), by Foote, 124; Browne, Sir Wil-
liam ("Devil on Two Sticks"), by Foote,
124; Long, Walter, as Flint ("Maid of
Bath"), by Foote, 125; Smith, General
as Sir Matthew Mite ("Nabob") by Foote,
125; Grieve, Mrs., as Mrs. Fleecem
("Cozeners"), by Foote, 126; Dodd, Mrs.,
as Mrs. Simony ("Cozeners"), by Foote,
127; Jackson, Rev. Mr., as Viper ("Cap-
uchin"), by Foote, 127; Barrowby, Dr.,
in Foote's "Entertainment," 121; Taylor,
the oculist, by Foote, 121; Cocks, the
auctioneer, by Foote, 121; Henly, by Foote,
121; De Veal, Sir Thomas, by Foote, 121;
Ap Rice, Mr., by Foote, 122; Longford, the
auctioneer, in the "Minor," by Foote, 122.
"Jealous Wife," Colman's, 86.
Jephson, his "Braganza," 78; his "Law of
Lombardy," 145.
Johnson, Miss, first wife of Theophilus
Cibber, 148.
Johnson at Mrs. Woffington's, 7; criticises
Brookes's "Earl of Essex," 36; Gold-
smith, 58; attack on Garrick in the
Rambler, 78, 79; his praise of Garrick,
79, 94; his dislike of Foote, 129.
"John Bull," how written, 289.
Jordan, Mrs., Mrs. Siddons's opinion of, 256,
in Imogen, 257, 844-7.
Kean, Moses, as Glumdalca, 73.
Kean, Edmund, and Mrs. Garrick, 90; his
Shylock, 191; Kemble's criticism on, 270;
sketch of his life, 377-414.
Kelly, killed by Ryan, 42; Kelly (Hugh),
his"False Delicacy," 67; "Clementina,"
68, 69, 71.
Kemble, John, in Mark Anthony, 180, 288;
life of, 264-278: Colman's opinion of, 277.
Kemble, Sarah, playing Ariel in barns, 64.
Kemble, Elizabeth (Mrs. Whitelock), 243,
255, 265.
Kemble, Frances (Mrs. Twiss), 243, 255.
Kemble, Anne (Mrs. Hutton), 255.
Kemble, Roger, 242, 243, 247.
Kemble, Henry, 279.
Kemble, Charles, 276-281; Mrs., 281-2.
Kemble, Stephen, 265, 278.
King, 337.
Kitty Fisher and Henderson's brother, 239.
Kirk, general assembly of the, and Mrs.
Siddons 250.
Lee, Lewes, actor, 226.
Leinster, Duchess of, and Miss Farren, 207.
Lewis, descended from Harley's secretary,
98, 338.
"Liar," Foote's, whence derived, 131.
Lekain, the French Garrick, sketch of, 81-2,
Llanover. Lady, on lack of refinement in
actors, 92.
"Love à la Mode," Macklin's, 190.
"Love's Last Shift," Cibber's, 19-20
Southerne and Lord Dorset's criticism on,
20; Congreve's, 24.
Lyttelton, Lord, counsels Garrick to enter
parliament, 89.
Macbeth, Lady, by Mrs. Pritchard and Mrs.
Siddons, 252-4.
Macklin, sketch of life and career, 184-196;
his first night in Macbeth, and consequent
riots, 71-2; counsel to Reynolds, 145;
generosity of Garrick to, 85; his criticism
on Barry and Garrick, 189.
Macready, William Charles. Father of,
417; early playing, 417; meets Master
Betty, 418; meets Edmund Kean, 418;
first appearance, 419; as Romeo, 420; as
Hamlet, 420; versatility of, 421; plays
with Mrs. Siddons, 422; advice of Young
to, 423; first appearance in London, 423;
opinions of critics, 423; plays with
Booth,424; as Pescara,424; original plays
produced by, 424; characteristics as an
actor, 4.5; sonnet to, by Tennyson, 426.
Mallet, his flattery disregarded by Garrick,
88.
Marriages-Parsons and Dorothy Stewart,
niece to the Earl of Galloway, 232; Miss
Farren and the Earl of Derby, 207; Gen-
tleman Smith and the daughter of Lord
Hinchinbroke, 224; Woffington, Mary,
with Hon. Mr. Cholmondeley, son of
Earl Cholmondeley, 8; Beard with Lady
Henrietta Herbert, daughter of the Earl
of Waldegrave, 46; O'Brien with Lady
Susan Strangways, daughter of the Earl
of Ilchester, 46; Pritchard, Miss, with
the elder John Palmer, 64; with Lloyd,
the political writer, 64; Dancer with Miss
Street, afterwards Mrs. Barry and Mrs.
Crawford, 104; Dancer, Mrs., with
Spranger Barry, 104; Barry, Mrs., widow
of Spranger Barry, with Mr. Crawford,
104; Cibber, Theophilus. and Miss John-
son, 108; secondly, with Susanna Maria
Arne, 52; Rafter, Miss (Kitty Clive), with
Mr., brother of Mr. Baron Clive, 108.
Mason, his "Caractacus," 74, 145; his
"Elfrida," 68.
Mattocks, Mrs., granddaughter of Hallam,
186, 341.
Medea-Mrs. Yates and Mrs. Siddons, 254.
Melmoth, Mrs. (Pratt), 313.
Mercier, on Garrick and Lekain, 82.
Merchant Tailor's School, life at, 115.
Metham, Mr., carries off Mrs. Bellamy, 201.
Middleton (Magann), follows Barry, 103.
Mitchell, Joseph, as a condemned play-
wright, 159.
Montagu, Mrs., her freedom with audi-
ences, 183.
Moore, Hannah, seriousness of her
"Percy," 148.
Mossop, opposed to Barry, 39; his merits
and manners, 107; rivalry with Barry,
107: excelled by Lewis, 98.
Murphy, 33, 34; his "Alzuma," 68.
Mexborough, Lord, entertains Foote, 132.
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