OF

MRS. SIDDONS.

INTERSPERSED WITH

ANECDOTES OF AUTHORS AND ACTORS.

BY JAMES BOADEN, Esa.

"SIDDONS !---whose learned theatre disdains

Melodious trifles, and enervate strains,

And blushes on her injured stage to see

Nonsense well-tun'd, and sweet stupidity,---

Unrivall❜d as thy merit be thy fame,

And thy own laurels shade thy envy'd name !"

Apud TICKELL.

SECOND EDITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME,

CHAPTER XII.

Produce of the Benefit. A very prominent Character.. Cumber,
land's Mysterious Husband.. Henderson.. Lord Orford's Mys-
terious Mother.. What Effect Mrs. Siddons could have given to
it.. Passage imitated from Lucan.. Cumberland's Horrors less
.. Pratt's School for Vanity.. Miss E. Kemble, in Portia ..
Mrs. Cowley's Bold Stroke for a Husband.. Comedies of the
Ladies.. Russel's Poem addressed to Mrs. Siddons.. She closes
her first brilliant Season .. Comparative Attraction of the Cha-
racters acted by her .. On the 9th of June, she leaves Town,
with the Breretons, for Dublin.. The two Theatres in the Hay-
market.. The Opera and its Proprietor.. Pacchierotti.. Viga-
noni.. Allegranti.. Le Picq, Slingsby, Rossi, Theodore.. The
Pigmy Palace beautified.. Intelligence Extraordinary, by Col-
O'Brien's Friend in Need.. The Lawyer Ben Jon-
son's Fox, how acted.. Not unsuccessful, as Mr. Gifford thought
Miss Kemble, her Sufferings from an insane Critic.. Admi-
rable Expostulation on her Behalf, by George Steevens.. Mrs.
Siddons's Success in the Summer .. Two of her Brothers en-
gaged in London.. S. Kemble in Othello.. Henderson
as acted by him Mr. Kemble in Hamlet.. A recently disco-
vered Copy of that Play.. Mrs. Siddons visits Dr. Johnson

man..

Iago

VOL. II.

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