Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century British Theatre

Abstract:

Visitors to Britain in the nineteenth century often recorded their theatre-going experiences. This is true of a number of North American visitors (some of whom became residents) in the early years of the nineteenth century. The artist Robert Charles Leslie, for instance, provides copious insights into British actors and actresses in his Autobiographical Recollections. Arriving in London at the age of sixteen,‘passionately fond of the theatre’1 as he tells us, he was in time to enjoy the performances of the Kembles, while also attending dinner parties where he made the acquaintance of Charles Kemble and Charles Mathews the elder and later getting to know the dramatist James Kenney. Washington Irving’s journals and letters also provide insights into the theatre of this period. He too became acquainted with Charles Kemble and James Kenney, recording on Thursday 4 December 1823 a breakfast conversation in Paris …

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2021

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