Charles Kemble

Standard Name: Kemble, Charles

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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/.
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...
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.
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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...

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