2014, ISBN: 1500984590

[EAN: 9781500984595], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. In presence of the splendid volume that has recently been de… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781500984595], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. In presence of the splendid volume that has recently been dedicated to Mrs. Woffington, this tribute to her great enemy and rival seems of small account. Such as it is, however, it embodies all that has hitherto been known concerning the fair and truculent Kitty, and even contributes some important facts until now unrecorded. Mr. Fitzgerald has succeeded, accordingly, in bringing to light records of two performances of Mrs. Clive at Drury Lane earlier than any recorded in Genest. For the rest he has written a pleasant and readable biography containing much amusing information concerning the stage, has presented Kitty s frailties in an agreeable light, and done full justice to her good qualities, including her undeniable genius. His work is accordingly welcome, but it is disfigured by a reprehensible number of press errors. Lee Lewes constantly appears as Lee Lewis ; Mrs. Clarke is substituted for Mrs. Charke ; Geneste for Genest ; Miss Price for Miss Prue ; Love and Love for Love for Love ; Mrs. Heidleberg for Mrs. Heidelberg, and so forth. The information supplied is, moreover, not always sufficiently ample or exact. Shuter was not, as might be supposed from Mr. Fitzgerald s statement, in the original cast of Mrs. Clive s play The Rehearsal; or, Bays in Petticoats, acted March 15th, 1750. Mr. Fitzgerald only says: It seems to have been played about the year 1750. Additions were made by the author to the last scene on the revival of the piece, March 12th, 1751, and Shuter then acted Sir Albany Oldlove, probably, according to Genest, added on this occasion. He also appeared when it was again revived, March 22nd, 1753. The striking description of Mrs. Clive s performances given in An Apology for the Life of Mr. T. C., Comedian, Mr. Fitzgerald unhesitatingly assigns to Fielding. This satirical work is generally ascribed to the author of Tom Jones. The evidence is, however, slight and unsatisfactory, and the fact that the authorship is open to doubt should have been mentioned. In giving the cast of Whig and Tory, by Griffin, revised by H. Aulius (I), a performance unrecorded in Genest, Mr. Fitzgerald remarks in a foot-note that Fielding s name appears in the cast. The Fielding in question is not, however, the novelist, but Timothy Fielding, of King Street (August 19th, 1738), an actor who played unimportant parts at Drury Lane and the Haymarket, and had a booth at the George Inn, Smithfield, and subsequently at Bartholomew Fair. Out of the undigested matter supplied by Chetwood, Victor, Genest, Lee Lewes, and other stage writers Mr. Fitzgerald has extracted a life which is bright and animated, and will serve to keep alive the memory of the saucy, red-faced, turbulent, and fascinating Irishwoman who was one of the brightest ornaments of the Drury Lane company at the period of its utmost splendour; who won the approval of Johnson, the warm eulogy of Goldsmith, and the friendship of Horace Walpole; who was painted by Hogarth; who fretted Garrick out of patience and cajoled him into patience; and who may, perhaps, be reckoned the most inspired comedian that the English stage has seen. The volume, which is far the best of the series in which it is included, is accompanied by a portrait. - The Athenaeum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Volume<

2014, ISBN: 1500984590

[EAN: 9781500984595], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.In presence of the splendid volume that has recently been ded… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781500984595], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.In presence of the splendid volume that has recently been dedicated to Mrs. Woffington, this tribute to her great enemy and rival seems of small account. Such as it is, however, it embodies all that has hitherto been known concerning the fair and truculent Kitty, and even contributes some important facts until now unrecorded. Mr. Fitzgerald has succeeded, accordingly, in bringing to light records of two performances of Mrs. Clive at Drury Lane earlier than any recorded in Genest. For the rest he has written a pleasant and readable biography containing much amusing information concerning the stage, has presented Kitty s frailties in an agreeable light, and done full justice to her good qualities, including her undeniable genius. His work is accordingly welcome, but it is disfigured by a reprehensible number of press errors. Lee Lewes constantly appears as Lee Lewis ; Mrs. Clarke is substituted for Mrs. Charke ; Geneste for Genest ; Miss Price for Miss Prue ; Love and Love for Love for Love ; Mrs. Heidleberg for Mrs. Heidelberg, and so forth. The information supplied is, moreover, not always sufficiently ample or exact. Shuter was not, as might be supposed from Mr. Fitzgerald s statement, in the original cast of Mrs. Clive s play The Rehearsal; or, Bays in Petticoats, acted March 15th, 1750. Mr. Fitzgerald only says: It seems to have been played about the year 1750. Additions were made by the author to the last scene on the revival of the piece, March 12th, 1751, and Shuter then acted Sir Albany Oldlove, probably, according to Genest, added on this occasion. He also appeared when it was again revived, March 22nd, 1753. The striking description of Mrs. Clive s performances given in An Apology for the Life of Mr. T. C., Comedian, Mr. Fitzgerald unhesitatingly assigns to Fielding. This satirical work is generally ascribed to the author of Tom Jones. The evidence is, however, slight and unsatisfactory, and the fact that the authorship is open to doubt should have been mentioned. In giving the cast of Whig and Tory, by Griffin, revised by H. Aulius (I), a performance unrecorded in Genest, Mr. Fitzgerald remarks in a foot-note that Fielding s name appears in the cast. The Fielding in question is not, however, the novelist, but Timothy Fielding, of King Street (August 19th, 1738), an actor who played unimportant parts at Drury Lane and the Haymarket, and had a booth at the George Inn, Smithfield, and subsequently at Bartholomew Fair. Out of the undigested matter supplied by Chetwood, Victor, Genest, Lee Lewes, and other stage writers Mr. Fitzgerald has extracted a life which is bright and animated, and will serve to keep alive the memory of the saucy, red-faced, turbulent, and fascinating Irishwoman who was one of the brightest ornaments of the Drury Lane company at the period of its utmost splendour; who won the approval of Johnson, the warm eulogy of Goldsmith, and the friendship of Horace Walpole; who was painted by Hogarth; who fretted Garrick out of patience and cajoled him into patience; and who may, perhaps, be reckoned the most inspired comedian that the English stage has seen. The volume, which is far the best of the series in which it is included, is accompanied by a portrait. - The Athenaeum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Volume<

ISBN: 9781500984595

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