Index A'Court, Sir William, 186 Abington, Frances, 274 Addison, Joseph, 87-8 Cato, 85 Aeschylus, 155 Albee, Edward Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 169 Allerman, G. S., 32 Alston, Robin, 255 Anderson, J. W., 256-7 Andrews, Mr and Mrs, 288 Archer, William, 168 Aristotle, 275 Arnold, Matthew, 192,216 Arnott, James Fullarton, 30 Aubignac, F r a n ~ o i s - Abbe H e c d', t e l i n, 154-5, 158 Austen, Jane, 183 Avery, Emmett L., 18, 109 Backscheider, Paula, 2, 4 Balme, Christopher, 271 Banberry, 197, 198 Bandele, Biyi, 5 OroOllOko, 237-9 Barbeau, Anne (Gardiner), 31 Barish, Jonas, 149n.6 Barker, Harley Granville, 168 Barnard, Sir John, 164, 165, 166 Barnett, Dene, 22, 251 Barrie, J. M., 168 Barrington, John, 129n.26, 197 Barry, Ann, 85-6, 118, 130n.52 Barry, Elizabeth, 20, 87, 120 Barry, Spranger, 92, 93, 204, 266 Bate, Henry, 280 Beale, Simon Russell, 250 Beard, John, 106, 115 Bedford, Arthur, 161, 164 Bedford, Duke of, 114 Behn, Aphra, 5,16,236-7,242-3,244 ROlmdheads, The, 2, 45-50, 55-6, 63-71 Rover, The, 45, 114 Bell, John, 25 Berlioz, Hector, 250 Betterton, Mary, 87 Betterton, Thomas, 2, 13, 20, 234, 240, 248,265 Bevis, Richard, 36, 51 Bickerstaff, Isaac, 28, 125, 254 Maid of the Mill, The, 152 Padlock, The, 179 Blackmore, Sir Richard, Prince Arthur, 155-6, 157 Boaden, James, 250, 274 Bolla, Peter de, 272 Booth, Barton, 106, 240, 265 Boswell, James, 185 Bracegirdle, Anne, 20, 87 Bradbrook, Muriel, 177 Bratton, Jacky, 280 Braudy, Leo, 275 Braverman, Richard, 31 Brecht, Bertolt, 240, 244 Bridgwater, Robert, 92 Briscoe, Sophie, 95 Brockett, Oscar G., 12, 28 Brome, Richard, 50 Brook, Peter, 238 Brooke, Frances, 78, 84-5 Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, Chances, The, 40n.44 Rehearsal, The, 22, 90, 91 Bullock, William, 20 Burke, Edmund, 244 Burke, Helen, 4 Burney, Frances, 81-4, 94 Burnim, Kalman A., 19,22 Bute, Earl of, 235 Butler, Judith, 231, 233, 235, 238 Campbell, Thomas, 273, 277 Canfield, J. Douglas, 32 Cannan, Paul, 155 Carey, Henry Chrononhotonth%gos, 176 294
Index 295 Carlson, Marvin, 139 Caroline, Queen, 279 Chancellor, E. Beresford, 109 Charles I, 46, 49, 55, 65, 68, 69, 144, 145, 277 Charles II, 28, 35, 47, 50, 51, 54-6, 58, 59, 66,68,69,80,140 Charlotte, Queen, 277 Choudhury, Mita, 5 Churchill, Charles, 273-4 Cibber, Colley, 23, 28, 88, 106, 115, 120, 125, 162, 167 Careless HI/sband, The, 79 Cibber, Susannah, 92, 259 Cibber, Theophilus, 90, 266 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 233 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 65-6 Clarke, Matthew, 121 Claydon, Tony, 144-5 Clifford, James, 226 Clive, Kitty, 92, 95n.4 Clubbe, John, 284 Cobb,James Haunted Tower, The, 25 Siege of Belgrade, The, 25 College, Stephen, 46 Collier, Rev. Jeremy, 3, 43n.88, 135-5 I, 154, 155, 156-7, 161 Colman, George, the Elder, 106, 115 Deuce is in Him, The, 83 Colomba, Signora, 220 Congreve, William, 15, 81, 135, 139, 141-2, 189 Double Dealer, The, 80 Love for Love, 20-1, 83-4 Way of the World, The, 135 Congreve, William, Sir John Vanbrugh and William Walsh Squire Trelooby, 191-2, 195-6 Cordner, Michael, 2, 252, 263 Corneille, Pierre Cid, Le, 159 Cowley, Abraham Cutter of Coleman Street, 56-60, 61, 62-3, 66 Guardian, The, 56-60 Crary, Jonathan, 272, 289 Cromwell, Elizabeth, 53 Cromwell, Oliver, 45, 48, 51-4, 58-9, 65-7, 69-70, 73n.25, 218 Crystal, David, 251 Cumberland, Richard, 90, 176, 186 West Indian, The, 152 Cushing, John, 121 Darwin, Charles, 11 Davenant, Sir William, 19, 26 Davies, Thomas, 90, 92, 93, 238, 265 Day, Cyrus Lawrence, 36 Debord, Guy, 275 Defoe, Daniel, 246n.19 Dejean, Joan, 139 Delane, Dennis, 91 Dennis, John, 80, 153, 156, 158, 160-1, 162, 163, 167, 168 Invader of his COUl1try, The, 160 Derrida, Jacques, 271 Desborough, John, 45, 64, 67 Dessen, Alan, 24 Dibdin, Charles, the Younger, 215 Diderot, Denis, 244 Dobson, Michael, 4, 244 Dodsley, Robert, 232 Doggett, Thomas, 17, 18 Donoghue, Frank, 224 Donohue, Joseph A., Jr., 31 Donovan, Kevin, 191 Doody, Margaret, 97n.27 Doran, Gregory, 238 Dryden, John, 16, 29, 30, 35, 81, 87,156 Albiol1 al1d Albal1ills, 26 All for Love, 176, 181 Conquest of Granada, The, 13 Don Sebastian, 80 Troilus and Cressida, 245n.6 Dryden, John, and Sir William Davenant Tempest, The, 182 Dryden, John, Sir William Davenant and Thomas Shadwell Tempest, The, 25, 39n.30 Dumay, D., 121 Dunstall, John, 121 Durfey, Thomas, 81 Dyck, Sir Anthony Van, 277 Earle, Peter, 118 Elgar, Edward, 250 Erenstein, Robert, 272 Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 48,49 Etherege, Sir George, 15 Man of Mode, The, 30 Euripides, 155 loll, 181 Fairfax, Thomas, Lord of Cameron, 45 Farinelli, (Carlo Broschi), 122-3
296 Index Farquhar, George, 16,21, 190, Beaux'Stratagem, The, 20, 274 Constant Couple, The, 201 Twin-Rivals, The, 33 Featherstone, Mr, 220-1 Fecter, Mr, 178, 181 Ferriar, John Prince of Angola, The, 237, 243, 244 Fielding, Henry, 16, 17,28,35,80,86, 91-2, 94, 125, 153 Author's Farce, The, 84, 167 Pasquin, 152 Tom Thumb the Great, 85 Fielding, Sarah, 78, 80, 81, 88, 94-5, 98n.37 Filmer, Sir Robert, 31 Fiske, Roger, 36 Fitzpatrick, Thaddaeus, 262--4 Fleetwood, Charles (theatre manager), 115, 123, 166 Fleetwood, Charles, Lord, 45 Fletcher, John Chances, The, 40n.44 Foote, Samuel, 79--80, 91, 93, 261, 265, 266 Commissary, The, 83 Minor, The, 83 Orators, The, 23 Foucault, Michel, 273 Francklin, Thomas Earl of Warwick, The, 184 Freeman, Lisa, 3, 31 Friedman, Arthur, 21 Friend, Sir John, 137 Froude, J. A., 209n.21 Gainsborough, Thomas, 280-2, 284-9 Gallini, Giovanni Andrea, 116 Garrick, David, 5, II, 20, 21-2, 23, 28, 33, 40n.44, 80, 81-2, 88, 90-3, 94, 95n.4,109-1O, 115, 123--4, 125,232, 233,234-6,239,240-2,243-4,248-67, 273--4, 285-9 Cymon, 184 Florizel and Perdita, 187n.14 High Life Below Stairs, 180 Meeting of the Company, The, 267 Gay, John Beggar's Opera, The, 3, 16, 19, 28, Ill, 153, 244 Genest, Rev. John, 17, 18, 35 Gentleman, Francis, 80, 266 George I, 18 George II, 166 George III, 177, 186, 274, 277 Gerrard, Christine, 31 Giffard, Henry, 262 Gildon, Charles, 153, 158-60, 161, 162, 163, 166, 167, 168, 234, 265 Gillray, James, 282-3 Glassie, Henry, 217 Goldgar, Betrand A., 31 Goldsmith, Henry, 220 Goldsmith, Oliver, 81, 83, 190, 214, 218-21, 223 Good Natur'd Man, The, 224 She Stoops to Conquer, 4-5, 214, 218-26 Gorden, Peggy, 220 Goring, Paul, 205 Grafton, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 46 Granby, Marquis of, 220 Graves, Richard, 91 Green, Jane, 121 Green, Valentine, 277 Greenblatt, Stephen, 37n.lO, 248 Gwynn, Nell, 87 Habermas, Jurgen, 139-40 Hackett, James, 257 Hale, Sacheverel, 91 Hall, Sir Peter, 263 Hamilton, Duke of, 219 Hamilton, Mary, 273 Hamilton, William, 273 Handel, George Frederick, 26, 29 Hare, Arnold, 180, 185 Harris, Gertrude, 180-2, 187n.14 Harris, James, 180-2 Harris, Louisa Margaret, 180-4 Harris, Mrs James, 181-2, 184 Harris, Susan Cannon, 4 Harris, Thomas, 33, 106, 115, 121, 125, 128n.1O Hart, Charles, 2, 40n.44 Harvard, William King Charles I, 277-8 Hawkesworth, John, 241-2 Hayman, Francis, 232, 240 Haywood, Eliza, 79 Henderson, John, 256 Henrietta Maria, Queen, 49, 69 Hewson, John, 45 Heywood, Thomas, 50 Highfill, Philip H., 19, 22 Hill, Aaron, 92, 99n.52, 153, 164, 165, 166, 167,168,231-2,233,234,243,259 Zara, 95, 181 Hill, Sir John, 93, 252-3, 260-1 Hinchman, Miss, 183, 184 Hitchcock, Alfred, 240
Index 297 Hoadly, Benjamin Suspicious Husband, The, 81-2 Hoadly, John Contrast, The, 37n.16 Hobbes, Thomas, 31 Hodgdon, Barbara, 271 Hogan, Charles Beecher, 18 Hogarth, William, 245n.ll, 272, 284 Holcroft, Thomas, 94 Holland, Peter, 5, 20 Holquist, Michael, 166-7 Home, John Douglas, 85, 89, 152, 235-6 Hopes, J., 140, 142 Hotson, Leslie, 10, 14 Howard, Edward Usurper, The, 72.4 Howard, Sir Robert, 49 Committee, The, 56, 60-5, 71, 197 Howard, Sir Robert, and Ge<:>rge Villiers, Duke of Buckingham Country Gentleman, The, 33, 38n.16, 63 Howe, Elizabeth, 20 Hume, David, 244 Hume, Robert D., 1-2, 116, 156, 224, 243, 245n.14 Hunter, David, 29 Ibsen, Henrik, 169 Doll's House, A, 13 Inchbald, Elizabeth, 27, 85, 87, 125 Ireton, Henry, 45 Irving, Sir Henry, 168 Iwanisziw, Susan, 242 James Harris, Earl of Malmesbury, 180, 182 James I, 177 James II Games, Duke of York), 47, 137, 140, 141-2, 144 Janssen, Geerart, 285 Jephson, Robert Braganza, 84, 85 Johnson, Dr Samuel, 118, 253-4, 262 Johnstone, Charles, 78 Jones, Ann Rosalind, 192 Jones, Ernest, 13 Jones, Jane, 50 Jonson, Ben, 177 Alchemist, The, 56-7, 58 Jordan, Robert, 21 Kahrl, George M., 233-4, 240 Kean, Edmund, 257 Kelly, Cornelius, 219-21 Kemble, John Philip, 21, 93, 128n.lO, 274, 277 Kenny, Shirley Strum, 21 Kenrick, William, 253-4 Falstaff'S Wedding, 253-4 Widowed Wife, The, 254 Killigrew, Thomas, 19,26 Kimber, Edward, 81 Kinservik, Matthew, 3,29, 140 Kobialka, Michal, 213 Krutch, Joseph Wood, 150n.38 Laclau, Ernesto, 235, 244 Lacy, James, 123 Lacy, John Old Troop, The, 21On.36 Lambert, John, 45, 50-2, 67, 70 Langbaine, Gerard, 155 Langhans, Edward A., 19,22,24-5 Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 144, 145 Lavater, Johann Caspar, 284 Law, William, 154, 161 Lawrence, Thomas, 277 Le Brun, Charles, 232, 234 Leach, Mr, 105 Leacroft, Richard, 23 Lee, Nathaniel, 85 Rival Queens, The, 89 Theodosius, 89 Leerssen, Joep, 190 LeKain (Henri Louis Cain), 240 Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, 90, 256-7 Liesenfeld, Vincent J., 166 Lillo, George London Merchant, The, 80 Lodge, David, 37n.1O Loftis, John, 31 Louis XIV, 232 Louis XVI, 277 Love, Harold, 21, 51 Love, James, 215 Mack, Maynard, 29 Macklin, Charles, 23, 82, 91, 92, 118, 192, 201,204,234-5,258,267,274 Love ii la Mode, 189, 191, 204-8 MacMahon, Michael, 253 Macmillan, Dougald, 36 Macready, William Charles, 216 Mallett, David Elvira, 176, 180, 182-5 Man, Henry, 95
298 Index Marie Antoinette, 277 Markley, Robert, 48 Marlowe, Christopher Tamburlaine the Great, 56 Marly, Diana de, 24 Marshall, David, 78 Mattocks, George, 121 Mattocks, Isabella, 121, 130n.52 McConachie, Bruce, 12, 32 Mendez, Moses Double Disappointment, The, 200-2 Michelangelo, 275 Milhous, Judith, 3, 19,20, 152, 175 Miller, James Mahomet the Imposter, 191,201 Mills, 'Billy', 99n.62 Milton, John, 205 Mitchell, W. J. T., 289 Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de, 169, 189, 191 Monsieur de Porceaugnac, 191-2, 195-6 Monck, General George, 46, 50, 54-5 Monmouth, Charles Middleton, Earl of, 47 Montague, Edward, Baron of Boughton, 46 More, Hannah, 242-3 Morgan, Macnamara Florizel and Perdita, 176, 180, 182-4 Mozeen, Thomas, 94 Muller, Beate, 167 Munns, Jessica, 239 Mure, Hutchinson, 114, 130n.42 Murphy, Arthur, 257 Zenobia, 176, 182 Murray, Christopher, 191, 198 Murrie, Eleanore Boswell, 36 Nedham, Marchamont, 75n.56 Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holies, Duke of (Lord Chamberlain), 160, 161 Newton, Rev. Thomas, 250 Nicholson, Watson, 168 Nicoll, Allardyce, 14, 15 Norris, 'Jubilee' Dicky, 20 Northcote, James, 279 Noverre, Jean Georges, 124 Noyes, Robert Gale, 94 O'Brien, William, 177 O'Keeffe, John, 5, 225-6 O'Reilly, Robert Bray, 116 Oldfield, Ann, 87, 88, 98n.44 Oldys, William, 234 Otway, Thomas, 80, 81, 85 Friendship in Fashion, 33 Orphan, The, 179 Soldiers' Fortune, The, 46 Venice Preserv'd, 31, 152, 262 Owen, Susan J., 31, 48 Parry, Mr, 181 Pepys, Samuel, 1, 28, 35, 60, 72n.4 Perkins, Sir William, 137 Pettit, Alexander, 31 Philips, Ambrose, 85 Distressed Mother, The, 86-8, 89, 190 Pickering, Roger, 259 Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing, 168 Pinkethman, William, 17 Piozzi, Hester, 277 Plato, 136 Pocock, J. G. A., 142--3 Polwhele, Elizabeth Frolicks, The, 38n.16 Pope, Alexander, 29, 81, 160 Popple, William, 164-5, 168 Postlewait, Thomas, 13 Powell, George, 21 Powell, James Private Theatricals, 177-8 Powell, Sparks, 106 Powell, William, 92 Price, Mr, 105 Prior, James, 219-20, 222 Prynne, William, 135, 144, 146, 154, 164 Purcell, Henry, 26 Fairy Queen, The, 25 King Arthur, 25 Prophetess, The, 25 Purville, Oliver, 106 QUin, James, 20, 90, 91, 92, 93, 157, 177, 240,241 Quintilian, 90, 233 Ragussis, Michael, 189, 205 Ralph, James Comish Squire, The, 192 Reade, Simon, 239 Reynolds, Frederick Dramatist, The, 175-6 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 5, 274-80, 282, 285 Rich, Christopher Mosyer, 114 Rich, Christopher, 26 Rich, John, 19, 25, 27, 93-4, 105-6, 111, 114, 115, 117, 124, 126 Richardson, Samuel, 86-9, 91
Index 299 Richelieu, Cardinal, 154, 155, 161 Ridpath, George, 143-7 Roach, Joseph R., 22, 94, 243, 275 Roberts, David, 86 Robinson, Henry Crabb, 279 Robinson, John William, 30 Rojek, Chris, 275 Rosenfeld, Sybil, 24, 176 Ross, David, 121 Rotchford, Mr, 121 285-7 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 244 Rowe, Nicholas, 85, 118, 158 Fair Penitent, The, 90, 93, 186, 190, 261, 273 Jane Shore, 89, 91, 177 Rutherford, John, 106 Ryan, Lacy, 90, 91, 92, 93 Rymer, Thomas, 153, 155-6, 157, 158, 160-1, 166, 168 Rysbrack, John Michel, 285 Roubiliac, L o u i s - F r a n ~ o i s, Saint Dennis, 218 Saint George, 218 Saint Patrick, 218 Scheemakers, Peter, 285 Schickel, Richard, 275 Schneider, Ben Ross, Jr., 18 Scott, James, 286 Settle, Elkanah, 22 Shadwell, Charles, 189, 190 Plotting Lovers, The, 192, 196 Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of,48 Shakespeare, William, 13, 16, 23, 25, 80, 81, 118, 126, 155, 158, 169, 176, 177, 179, 285-8 As You Like It, 24 Hamlet, 13, 25, 81, 86, 91-2, 92, 94, 114, 197, 250, 256-7, 258-9, 262, 263 1 Henry IV, 93 Henry V, 260 King John, 277 King Lear, 81, 82, 240, 249, 251, 264-7 Macbeth, 21, 85, 88, 94, 180, 240, 250, 258,262,274,277 Merchant of Venice, The,S, 201, 204, 234-5 Othello, 5, 20, 24, 80, 180, 233, 236, 240-2, 256 Richard II, 254-5 Richard III, 23, 81, 90, 93, 180, 195, 240, 250, 257-8, 260-1, 263-4 Romeo and Juliet, 22, 92, 178,251 Tempest, The, 39n.30 Troilus and Cress ida, 251 Winter's Tale, The, 180 Shakespeare, William, and John Fletcher Henry VIII, 93, 277 Shaw, George Bernard, 169 Shebbeare, John, 266-7 Sheldon, Esther, 191 Shepard, Mr, 105 Sher, Sir Antony, 250 Sheridan, Frances, 89 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 16, 26, 28, 33, 35, 1 1 5 121, - 1 ~ 1 2251 ~ Sheridan, Thomas, 23, 253, 255-6, 257 Brave Irishman, Tile, 4, 189-92, 195-208 Sickert, Walter Richard, 289 Siddons, Sarah,S, 85-6, 89, 256, 273-83, 285, 288 Smith, Bruce, 251 Smith, John Harrington, 21 Smollett, Tobias, 78. 80, 90, 92, 93, 105 Sophocles, 155 Southern, Richard, 24 Southerne, Thomas, 21, 88 Fatal Marriage, The, 273 Oroolwko, 5, 237, 242, 244 Southerne, Thomas, revised John Hawkesworth Oroonoko, 233, 236-7, 241-2, 244 Sparks, Isaac, 197, 201, 207 Spivak, Gayatri, 238 Stallybrass, Peter, 192 Stanhope, Lady, 186 Stedman, John Gabriel, 243 Steele, Joshua, 248, 258-9 Steele, Sir Richard Consciolls Lovers, The, 21 Tender Husband, The, 86, 88, 94 Stephens, Toby, 250 Sterne, Laurence, 261-2, 285 Stevens, Dr, 181 Stevens, George, 288 Stone, George Winchester, Jr., 109, 233-4, 240 Strangways, Lady Susan Fox, 177, 178 Strindberg, August Miss Julie, 267 Summers, Montague, 20, 24-5 Swift, Jonathan, 29 Tate, Nahum, 157-8 King Lear, 264-7 Tatham, John, 49, 56 Rump, The, 50-6, 61, 63, 65, 67, 71, 74n.39
300 Index Taylor, Edward, 267 Taylor, William, 116 Tertullian, 147 Tobin, Mr, 181 Tonson, Jacob, 25, 118 Trancart, Antoine, 116 Trenchard, Mrs, 182 Troubridge, St Vincent, 121 Turner, James Grantham, 13 Vanbrugh, Sir John, 23, 88, 124, 139, 141 Aesop, 190 Provok'd Wife, The, 20, 82, 93 Vanderlint, Jacob, 118 Venner, Thomas, 59-60 Verbruggen, John, 20 Vestris, GaHan Appoline Balthazar, 124 Wagner, Peter, 280 Wagner, Richard, 250 Walker, John, 254-5 Wallace, Elizabeth Kowaleski, 237-8, 239 Walpole, Horace, 91, 288 Walpole, Sir Robert, 152, 153, 165, 166 Warner, Richard, 248 Warton, Dr Thomas, 181 Weber, Harold, 31 West, Shearer, 5 Whalley, Rev. Peter, 260 Wheatley, Christopher, 191 Whitehead, William Crellsa, 181, 185 Whitelocke, Bulstrode, 55 Whyte, Lawrence, 220-1, 223 Wilde, Lady Jane Francesca, 216-17 Wilde, Oscar, 216 Wilks, Robert, 21, 40n.44, 106, 167 William III and Mary, 137, 138, 140, 142, 144-5 Williams, Helen Maria, 85-6, 89 Williams, Tennessee Glass Menagerie, The, 169 Streetcar Named Desire, A, 169 Wilson, Benjamin, 186 Wind, Edgar, 280 Woffington, Margaret (Peg), 92, 201 Woodfall, William, 224 Woodford, Lady, 89 Worthen, W. B., 16 Wycherley, William, 15,21 Country Wife, The, 39n.34, 152 Plain Dealer, The, 93 Wyndham, Laetitia, 184-6, 187 Yates, Mary Ann, 84, 274 Zimansky, Curt, 155 Zizek, Slavoj, 233, 235