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, 1973–1993.
8: 335, 302
Charles Kemble
Standard Name: Kemble, Charles
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Hatton | AH
's eldest brother, John Philip Kemble
, and her younger brother, Charles
, also achieved fame as actors. |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kemble | FK
's father, the actor Charles Kemble
, inherited the management of Covent Garden Theatre
in London in 1817 (at a time when it was in financial difficulties) when his brother John Philip Kemble
retired. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977. 7, 12 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Theresa Kemble | Maria Theresa De Camp Maria Theresa Kemble
married her fellow-actor Charles Kemble
, after a long engagement imposed by his disapproving family. 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, 1973–1993. 327 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Russell Mitford | She began writing tragedies (after seeing Macready
on stage) before her father's financial losses compelled her to take up less prestigious but potentially better-paying genres as well. She was encouraged by Thomas Noon Talfourd
... |
| Leisure and Society | Mary Somerville | In EdinburghMS
also attended theatrical productions featuring such actors as Sarah Siddons
and her brothers Charles
and John Kemble
. Mary greatly enjoyed the social life of the Scottish capital, attended many balls, and... |
| 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, 1990. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977. 42-3 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965. |
| 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, 1996. 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, 1996. lxv |
| 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, 1839, pp. 1-315. 70 Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997. 277 Hemans, Felicia. The Vespers of Palermo. John Murray, 1823. |
| 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. |
| 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, 1870, 2 vols. 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. qtd. in 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, 1870, 2 vols. 2: 16 |
| 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, 1870, 2 vols. 2: 68-70 |
| 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... |
Timeline
18 September 1809: The new Covent Garden Theatre was opened,...
Building item
18 September 1809
The new Covent Garden Theatre
was opened, only to become the scene of massive riots.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
52, 55
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
123
Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
330-48
Historians disagree on the exact figures for the cost of building and the number seated. Henry Saxe Wyndham
15 December 1809: The Old Price Riots at the new Covent Garden...
Building item
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.
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
123
Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
330-48
1823: Stage costuming underwent a radical change...
Building item
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
.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
55
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