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THE STAGE.
VOL. III.
UNIV. OF
THE STAGE:
BOTH BEFORE
AND
BEHIND THE CURTAIN,
FROM
"OBSERVATIONS TAKEN ON THE SPOT."
BY ALFRED BUNN,
LATE LESSEE OF THE THEATRES ROYAL DRURY LANE AND
COVENT GARDEN.
'I am (NOT) forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison-house."
HAMLET, ACT 1. SC. V.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1840.
TO VIMU
LONDON:
FRINTED BY IBOTSON AND FALMER,
SAVOY STREET, STRAND.
CONTENTS
OF THE THIRD VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
Mr. C. Kean's appearance in London-A lecture on bad habits-Gar-
rick's villa-Mems of a Manager-A change of AIR-Ferdinand
Ries-Italian Opera at Paris-Severini-Mrs. Bland and Mrs. Jor-
dan—what is in Bishop, and how to extract it-Stanfield and Mac-
ready-Murphy praised, whether or no-John Reeve and the Lord
Mayor-Dimond his life and death-His many trials-
LENT, not paid for The Lord Chamberlain again !—Mrs. Glover's
fall from the stage-C. Kean's Hamlet and Richard-Three hundred
guineas' worth of lectures-A Shaksperian prophecy-Seguin and
Talleyrand-Unpublished letter from Lord Byron-Barclay and
Jackson-Magic Flute-a Roman Nose-Persiani-Boisragon-
Morton-C. Kean and his father contrasted-Dinner and des-
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CHAPTER II.
A splendid dinner, and a better dessert-Lord Morpeth and the Mar-
quis Clanricarde-John Bull-Mr. Merivale-Mems continued-
An actor's gratitude-Passion week, and how to spend it-Sir Hugh
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