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Charles Kemble

Standard Name: Kemble, Charles

Connections

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Textual Production	Charlotte Brooke	Some years before her death CB wrote her tragedy Belisarius on a story popularised by Marmontel in his Bélisaire, 1767 (which had first reached English in the same year as its French publication). Charles Kemble
Textual Production	Mary Russell Mitford	MRM began her verse tragedy Foscari in 1821, after the rejection of Fiesco, and was horrified to discover that Byron had just published The Two Foscari. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. Quarterly 35 (1927): 317 In late 1822...
Textual Production	Catherine Gore	This play was written in a bid to win a prize of £500 in a contest, sponsored by Benjamin Webster of the Haymarket , for the best modern comedy illustrative of British manners. Donkin, Ellen. “Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, pp. 54-74. 55
Textual Production	Mary Russell Mitford	MRM wrote to Macready in April 1823 about this play, or the idea for it; she was afraid he did not like it. She found the subject in Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the...
Textual Features	Matilda Hays	Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson , Longfellow (used...
Publishing	Mary Russell Mitford	Charles Kemble wrote to MRM (whose tragedy Charles the First had just been censored by the Lord Chamberlain) declining to produce her Foscari. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 53-4
Publishing	Mary Russell Mitford	From August 1823 MRM was planning a grand historical tragedy on the greatest subject in English story—Charles and Cromwell. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 16 She noted Cromwell 's domestic virtues and thought of him as a man acting...
Publishing	Mary Russell Mitford	Mitford was planning this tragedy by March 1827, though she said she had not yet drafted as much as ten lines. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 68-70 Charles Kemble expressed interest in it in 1828, but she turned him...
Publishing	Isabel Hill	The play was submitted gratuitously to Charles Kemble for fund-raising to avert the theatre's closure. It was the first of IH 's dramas to be performed, and ran for twelve nights. The lead role of...
Publishing	Isabel Hill	She had submitted it for production to Charles Kemble , but although he and W. C. Macready both thought highly of it, he did not accept it for the theatre. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Performance of text	Maria Theresa Kemble	MTK played Lady Elizabeth Freelove (opposite her husband ) in her comic interlude The Day After the Wedding; or, a Wife's First Lesson, at Covent Garden . Feminist Companion Archive.
Performance of text	Felicia Hemans	FH 's The Vespers of Palermo was produced at London's Covent Garden theatre with Charles Kemble in the lead role; it was published the same year. Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 70 Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 277 Hemans, Felicia. The Vespers of Palermo. John Murray.
Occupation	Fanny Kemble	FK , not yet twenty, made a triumphant Covent Garden Theatre debut as Shakespeare 's Juliet, saving her father 's company from bankruptcy. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 42-3 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Occupation	Fanny Kemble	FK and her father embarked on an extensive money-making theatrical tour of the British Isles. Scullion, Adrienne, editor. Female Playwrights of the Nineteenth Century. J. M. Dent; C. E. Tuttle. lxiv
Occupation	Fanny Kemble	She gave the substantial profits from this successful tour to her father when he returned to Britain following her marriage. Scullion, Adrienne, editor. Female Playwrights of the Nineteenth Century. J. M. Dent; C. E. Tuttle. lxv

Timeline

18 September 1809

The new Covent Garden Theatre was opened, only to become the scene of massive riots.

15 December 1809

The Old Price Riots at the new Covent Garden Theatre , which had raged since 18 September, ended with a formal apology from manager Charles Kemble to the audience.

1823

Stage costuming underwent a radical change after Planché was commissioned by Charles Kemble to design new dresses for the production of King John at the Covent Garden Theatre .

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