Howells, Coral Ann. Joanna Baillie and Her Circle, 1790-1850. Camden History Society.
John Philip Kemble
Standard Name: Kemble, John Philip
Used Form: J. P. Kemble
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | Joanna Baillie | Produced by J. P. Kemble
in a version adapted by himself, this performance included an epilogue by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
. Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 4, pp. 469-00. 490n22 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | There opened at Drury Lane Theatre
a comedy entitled Love in Many Masks, by John Philip Kemble
, which was adapted from AB
's The Rover. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1233 Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 69 (1790): 593 |
Textual Production | Frances Burney | FB
was probably working on two comedies, The Woman-Hater and A Busy Day, and planning her casts to include Sarah Siddons
and John Philip Kemble
. Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering. 1: 192-3, 289-90 |
Textual Production | Sarah Gardner | SG
wrote a one-act farce entitled Charity, with a brief preface and a prologue, which dramatises her experience of being exploited as a professional performer involved with amateurs. She said she wrote this not... |
Education | Elizabeth Grant | While the family resided in London, theatre-going provided another much-welcomed form of education and entertainment. EG
once attended a production of The Caravan, featuring John Kemble
, in which Carlo, the famous Newfoundland... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Hatton | AH
, in her late forties, was strongly advised by her eldest brother
against marrying another bad actor. Henderson, Jim. “Ann of Swansea: a life on the edge”. National Library of Wales Journal, Vol. 34 , No. 1, pp. 1-47. 24 |
Cultural formation | Ann Hatton | The most noteworthy attribute of AH
's family was their theatrical involvement, which in her generation became theatrical fame. They held an insecure positon in the middle ranks; at the time of Ann's birth they... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Hatton | AH
's eldest brother, John Philip Kemble
, and her younger brother, Charles
, also achieved fame as actors. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 8: 335, 302 |
Wealth and Poverty | Ann Hatton | The suicide attempt provided an occasion for anonymous friends to solicit the public on her behalf for money, also in terms calculated to annoy her relations. After this Sarah Siddons
and John Philip Kemble
reputedly... |
Wealth and Poverty | Ann Hatton | Still, even during her husband's lifetime AH
was still dependent on her family. Sarah Siddons
paid her an annuity of twenty or thirty pounds (continued under her will after she died), and brother John Philip Kemble |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
was introduced to John Philip Kemble
(who was to become famous as an actor-manager), in Manchester, by his sister Sarah Siddons
. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 16 Inchbald, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. A Simple Story, edited by Jane Spencer and Joyce Marjorie Sanxter Tompkins, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xxxiii. xxxi |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | John Philip Kemble
wrote the following May to ask after her progress. He imagined the story melodramatically, and enquired: how many distressed damsels and valorous knights? Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 18 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Inchbald | At about 60,000 words, A Simple Story was a short novel for its day, especially perhaps for a story embracing two generations. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 175n13 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Theresa Kemble | They had become engaged in 1800. John Philip Kemble
and other family members disapproved, and perhaps hoped that Charles would change his mind if made to wait. People saw MTK
's manners as rough and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Kemble | Actor Charles Kemble
, father of Fanny
and AK
, took on the share of his brother John Philip Kemble
in Covent Garden Theatre
. Within a couple of years he took on the major... |
Timeline
30 September 1783: John Philip Kemble made his first appearance...
Building item
30 September 1783
John Philip Kemble
made his first appearance (as Hamlet) at Drury Lane Theatre
.
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