Gothic Drama in the Romantic Age, 1760-1830

Section 2:

Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons by James Boaden (1783)

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Excerpt from
GOTHIC READINGS : THE FIRST WAVE, 1764-1840
edited by Rictor Norton
London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 2000.

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"A Performance of Julia and Agnes"
by Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855)

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Excerpt from
GOTHIC READINGS : THE FIRST WAVE, 1764-1840
edited by Rictor Norton
London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 2000.

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"To Mrs. Siddons" by Joanna Baillie

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Excerpt from
THE SELECTED POEMS OF JOANNA BAILLIE
edited by Jennifer Breen
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999

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Excerpt from "Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatre"
by Leigh Hunt
(...) "Kemble. It is in characters that are occupied with themselves ..."
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from
THE LONDON STAGE, 1776-1800 : A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION
by Charles Beecher Hogan
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968

Excerpt from "Characters of Shakespear's Plays"
by William Hazlitt (1817)
(...) "In speaking of the character of Lady Macbeth, ..."
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Excerpt from London Magazine (January 1820)
by William Hazlitt
(...) "The first of these in tragedy is Mr Kean..."
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from
THE ROMANTICS ON SHAKESPEARE
edited by Jonathan Bate
Penguin, 1992
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"Almeyda, Queen of Granada" by Sophia Lee
Act 5, Scene 2

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Excerpt from
Lee, Sophia: ALMEYDA : QUEEN OF GRANADA
edited by Diego Saglia, with an Introduction by Angela Wright.
British Women Playwrights around 1800. 15 July 1999. [31/10/2003.]
<http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mirrors/romnet/wp1800/editions/mysterious/queen.html>

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