See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

JOHN See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

PHILIP See also:

• KEMBLE
• KEMBLE, JOHN MITCHELL (1807-1857)

KEMBLE (1757-1823)  , the second See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• PRESCOT

Prescot, See also:

• LANCASHIRE

Lancashire, on the 1st of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1757 . His See also:

• MOTHER

mother was a See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic, and he was educated at Sedgeley See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

Park Catholic See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary, near See also:

• WOLVERHAMPTON
• WOLVERHAMPTON, HENRY HARTLEY FOWLER

Wolverhampton, and the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college at See also:

• DOUAI

Douai, with the view of becoming a See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest . But at the conclusion of the four years' course he discovered that he had no vocation for the priesthood, and returning to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England he joined the theatrical See also:

• COMPANY

company of Crump & See also:

• CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
• CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
• CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
• CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)

Chamberlain, his first See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance being as See also:

• THEODOSIUS

Theodosius in See also:

• LEE
• LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
• LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
• LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
• LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
• LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
• LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
• LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
• LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
• LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
• LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
• LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
• LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
• LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)

Lee's tragedy of that name at Wolverhampton on the 8th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1776 . In 1778 he joined the See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York company of See also:

• TATE, JAMES (1771-1843)
• TATE, NAHUM (1652-1715)
• TATE, RALPH (1840-1901)
• TATE, SIR HENRY, BART

Tate See also:

• WILKINSON, JAMES (1757–1825)
• WILKINSON, JAMES JOHN GARTH (1812-1899)
• WILKINSON, JOHN (1728-1808)
• WILKINSON, SIR JOHN GARDNER (1797—1875)
• WILKINSON, TATE (1739—1803)

Wilkinson, appearing at See also:

• WAKEFIELD
• WAKEFIELD, GILBERT (1756-1801)

Wakefield as See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain Plume in See also:

• FARQUHAR, GEORGE (1677-1707)

Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer; in See also:

• HULL
• HULL (in O.Eng. hulu, from helan, to cover, cf. Ger. Hiille, covering)
• HULL (officially KINGSTON-UPON-HULL)
• HULL, ISAAC (1775-1843)

Hull for the first See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time as See also:

• MACBETH

Macbeth on the 30th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October, and in York as See also:

• ORESTES

Orestes in See also:

• AMBROSE (AMBROISE), AUTPERT (d.' 778)
• AMBROSE (ANDREY SERTIS-KAMENSKIY) (1708-1771)
• AMBROSE (fl. 119o)
• AMBROSE, ISAAC (1604-1663/4)
• AMBROSE, SAINT (c. 340-307)

Ambrose See also:

• PHILIPS, AMBROSE (c. 1675-1749)
• PHILIPS, JOHN (1676-1708)
• PHILIPS, KATHARINE (1631-1664)

Philips's Distressed Mother . In 1781 he obtained a " See also:

• STAR

star " engagement at See also:

• DUBLIN

Dublin, making his first appearance there on the 2nd of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November as See also:

• HAMLET

Hamlet . He also achieved See also:

• GREAT

great success as See also:

• RAYMOND, HENRY JARVIS (1820-1869)

Raymond in The See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count of See also:

• NARBONNE

Narbonne, a See also:

• PLAY

play taken from See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace See also:

• WALPOLE, HORATIO
• WALPOLE, SIR SPENCER (1839-1907)

Walpole's See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

Castle of See also:

• OTRANTO

Otranto . Gradually he won for himself a high reputation as a careful and finished actor, and this, combined with the greater fame of his See also:

• SISTER

sister, led to an engagement at See also:

• DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane, where he made his first appearance on the 3oth of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1783 as Hamlet . In this role he awakened See also:

• INTEREST

interest and discussion among the critics rather than the enthusiastic approval of the public . But as Macbeth on the 31st of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1785 he shared in the See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm aroused by Mrs See also:

• SIDDONS, SARAH (1755-1831)

Siddons, and established areputation among living actors second only to hers . See also:

• BROTHER

Brother and sister had first appeared together at Drury Lane on the 22nd of November 1783, as See also:

• BEVERLEY
• BEVERLEY, WILLIAM ROXBY (1814?-1889)

Beverley and Mrs Beverley in See also:

• MOORE, A
• MOORE, ALBERT JOSEPH (1841–1893)
• MOORE, EDWARD (1712–1757)
• MOORE, GEORGE (1853– )
• MOORE, GEORGE FOOT (1851– )
• MOORE, HENRY (1831–1895)
• MOORE, JOHN (1729-1802)
• MOORE, SIR JOHN (1761-1809)
• MOORE, THOMAS (1779-1852)

Moore's The Gamester, and as See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John and See also:

• CONSTANCE
• CONSTANCE (Ger. Konstanz or Costnitz)
• CONSTANCE, COUNCIL OF
• CONSTANCE, LAKE OF (called by the Romans Lacus Brigantinus or lake of Bregenz, and now usually named in German Bodensee, as well as the " Swabian Sea ")

Constance in See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare's tragedy . In the following See also:

• YEAR

year they played See also:

• MONTGOMERIE, ALEXANDER (c. 1550-c. 161o)

Montgomerie and See also:

• MATILDA (1046-1115)
• MATILDA (1102-1164)

Matilda in See also:

• CUMBERLAND
• CUMBERLAND, DUKES AND EARLS OF
• CUMBERLAND, RICHARD (1632-1718)
• CUMBERLAND, RICHARD (1732-1811)
• CUMBERLAND, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS

Cumberland's The Carmelite, and in 1785 Adorni and Camiola in See also:

• KEMBLE
• KEMBLE, JOHN MITCHELL (1807-1857)

Kemble's See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of See also:

• MASSINGER, PHILIP (1583-1640)

Massinger's A Maid of See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

Honour, and Othello and Desdemona . Between 1785 and 1787 Kemble appeared in a variety of roles, his Mentevole in See also:

• JEPHSON, ROBERT (1736-1803)

Jephson's Julia producing an overwhelming impression .

On the 8th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1787 he married Priscilla See also:

• HOPKINS, EDWARD WASHBURN (1857— )
• HOPKINS, ESEK (1718-18oz)
• HOPKINS, MARK (1802—1887)
• HOPKINS, SAMUEL (1721–1803)
• HOPKINS, WILLIAM (1793–1866)

Hopkins Brereton (1756—1845), the widow of an actor and herself an actress . Kemble's See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment as manager of 'Drury Lane in 1788 gave him full opportunity to See also:

• DRESS (from the Fr. dresser, to set out, arrange, formed from Lat. directus, arranged, dirigere, to direct, arrange)

dress the characters less according to tradition than in See also:

• HARMONY (Gr. dpµovia, a concord of musical sounds, dpA'ew to join; &plan midi (sc. TeXvil)

harmony with his own conception of what was suitable . He was also able to experiment with whatever parts might strike his See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy, and of this See also:

• PRIVILEGE

privilege he took See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage with greater courage than discretion . His activity was prodigious, the See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of his parts including a large number of Shakespearian characters and also a great many in plays now forgotten . In his own version of See also:

• CORIOLANUS, GAIUS (or GNAEUS)14IARCIUS

Coriolanus, which was revived during his first See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season, the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the " See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble Roman " was so exactly suited to his See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers that he not only played it with a perfection that has never been approached, but, it is said, unconsciously allowed its See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence to See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour his private manner and modes of speech . His tall and imposing See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person, noble countenance, and See also:

• SOLEMN (Lat. sollemnis, sollemnis, less correctly solennis, yearly, annual; from sollus = totus, whole, entire, Gr. Mos., and annus, year)

solemn and See also:

• GRAVE

grave demeanour were uniquely adapted for the Roman characters in Shakespeare's plays; and, when in addition he had to depict the See also:

• GRADUAL (Med. Lat. gradualis, of or belonging to steps or degrees; gradus, step)

gradual growth and development of one absorbing See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion, his See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation gathered a momentum and majestic force that were irresistible . His defect was in flexibility, variety, rapidity; the characteristic of his See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style was method, regularity, precision, elaboration even of the minutest details, founded on a thorough psychological study of the See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

personality he had to represent . His elocutionary See also:

• ART

art, his See also:

• FINE

fine sense of See also:

• RHYTHM (Greek pvBµds, from bap, to flow)

rhythm and emphasis, enabled him to excel in declamation, but physically he was incapable of giving expression to impetuous vehemence and searching pathos . In Coriolanus and See also:

• CATO, DIONYSIUS
• CATO, MARCUS PORCIUS (234—149 B.c.)
• CATO, MARCUS PORCIUS (95-46 B.c.)
• CATO, PUBLIUS VALERIUS

Cato he was beyond praise, and possibly he may have been See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior to both See also:

• GARRICK, DAVID (1717-1779)

Garrick and See also:

• KEAN, EDMUND (1787–1833)

Kean in Macbeth, although it must be remembered that in it See also:

• PART

part of his See also:

• INSPIRATION (Lat. inspirare, breathe upon or into)

inspiration must have been caught from Mrs Siddons . In all the other great Shakespearian characters he was, according to the best critics, inferior to them, least so in See also:

• LEAR, EDWARD (1812-1888)

Lear, Hamlet and See also:

• WOLSEY, THOMAS (c. 1475–1530)

Wolsey, and most so in Shylock and See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard III . On See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the eccentricities of See also:

• SHERIDAN
• SHERIDAN, PHILIP HENRY (1831-1888)

Sheridan, the proprietor of Drury Lane, Kemble withdrew from the management, and, although he resumed his duties at the beginning of the season 1800—18o1, he at the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of 1802 finally resigned connexion with it . In 1803 he became manager of Covent See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden, in which he had acquired a See also:

• SIXTH

sixth See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share for £23,000 .

The See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre was burned down on the loth of September 18o8, and the raising of the prices after the opening of the new theatre, in 1809, led to riots, which practically suspended the performances for three months . Kemble had been nearly ruined by the See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire, and was only saved by a generous See also:

• LOAN (adapted from the Scandinavian form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Swed. Mn, Icel. lan, Dut. leen; the O.E. laen appears in " lend," the ultimate source is seen in the root of Gr. Xeiaecv and Lat. linquere, to leave)

loan, afterwards converted into a See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift, of £Io,000 from the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• NORTHUMBERLAND
• NORTHUMBERLAND, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• NORTHUMBERLAND, JOHN DUDLEY, VISCOUNT LISLE, EARL OF WARWICK
• NORTHUMBERLAND, JOHN NEVILLE, EARL OF (c. 1430-1471)

Northumberland . Kemble took his final leave of the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage in the part of Coriolanus on the 23rd of See also:

• JUNE

June 1817 . His retirement was probably hastened by the rising popularity of See also:

• EDMUND
• EDMUND, or EADMUND (c. 980-1016)
• EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240)

Edmund Kean . The remaining years of his See also:

• LIFE

life were spent chiefly abroad, and he died at See also:

• LAUSANNE

Lausanne on the 26th of February 1823 . See Boaden, Life of John See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip Kemble (1825) ; See also:

• FITZGERALD
• FITZGERALD, EDWARD (1809–1883)
• FITZGERALD, LORD E
• FITZGERALD, LORD EDWARD (1763-1798)
• FITZGERALD, LORD THOMAS (loth earl of Kildare), (1513-1537)
• FITZGERALD, RAYMOND, or REDMOND (d. ca. 1182)

Fitzgerald, The Kembles (1871) .