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244.
gamekeeper took him out afield to teach him
the management of his fowling-piece and the
arts of approaching game.
Of. also Gillray's "Hero's /sic7 Recruiting at Kelsey's;
- or - Guard-Day at St. James'¥" (June 9, 1797) in
Draper Hill, Fashionable Contrasts; 100 Caricatures-fry
James Grillray C1966).
20. Edgar ¥ind has written on the analogies between late
18th Century conventions of historical painting and
scenic art in his article "The Revolution of History
Painting", (Journal of the Warburg Institute. II, no.2
(Oetobar 1938;, 116-127).
21. On Talma's visit to London in 1817, see Herbert F.Collins,
Talma: a Biography of an Actor (1964), chapter 38.
22. Kiraberley, pp.87-98. Harold Child's lecture The
Shakespearean Productions of John Philip Eemble (The
Shakespeare Association,1935) gives a useful account
of Kerable's dealings with the plays he adapted,
particularly his mangled Coriolanus, incorporating
pieces from Thomson's play (first acted in 1749: subsequently
altered "by Sheridan). Child represents
Kemble as a man whose (to our eyes and ears) imperfect
versions of Shakespeare kept the draiiatist popular at
a time when the theatrical taste of the capital city
had reached its nadir.
23. Kimberley, p.87.
24. John Philip Kemble (editor), Cyrabeline.. .a historical
play... (1810), p.65. Quotations are from this
edition. Kemble 1 3 version had its first incarnation
in 1801.
25. On Parley's "line", PlanchS, Recollections and
Reflections (2 vols, I, 209f.
26. Brander Mathews and Laurence Button, editors, Actors
and Actresses of Oreat Britain and the United States...
(3 vols, New York, 1886), II, 106-9.
27. Imogen was not a major role in Firs. Siddon's repertoire,
which had much simpler and more direct vehicles for her
line in characterisation, which :ioger Manvell summarizes
as "pathos, moral sentiment, and rhetorical fervour
and disdain" (Sarah Siddons. Portrait of an Actress
(1970), p.122)"Sor did the play figure largely in
Kemble's own repertoire, although he was able to use
Posthumus as material for his favourite charactertraits:
in Herschel Baker's biography of Kemble,
Cymbeline figures briefly as the-play-that-was-donenext:
The next winter /I^Q7/87Cymbeline. which had been
unsuccessfully revived~~the season before, was