Cymbeline - eTheses Repository - University of Birmingham

a new dress or two for the principle actors... 6
Cymbeline made little impression - a review of the revival
in October - the only contemporary review I have been able
to find - tells us that the acting was at least adequate:
63.
Kemble's Posthumus was a fine spirited
performance; his excellent acting in the
principal scenes elicited loud applause;
Young made the most of the part of lachimo,
and Miss Jarman, who improves much in her
acting, threw no small interest into the
part of Imogen. Parley hustled through
Cloten much to the amusement of the audience;
and all the other parts were for the most
part well filled.
(The Evening Star. October 4 f 1827)
William Bodham Donne's Obituary notice, published in Frazer's
Magazine in December, 1854, remembered Charles Kemble as an
actor of great versatility, able to play :aore characters well,
than any other actor of comparable pretensions since Garrick.
If he had no equal in Benedick, neither had he
in Jaffeir, if his Leon and Don Felix were
unsurpassed, so also were his Sdgar in Lear
and Leonatus in Cymbeline.'
She Covent Garden Theatre Diary, in the British Museum,
informs us that the four performances of Cymbeline which
followed the first, benefit, night, made the following sums:
i-iay 16 May 21 £204.17.6
£189.11.0
Oct. 3 Oct. 19 £182. 7.6
£172.6.0
The accounts give £3.9.0 as receipts for *Iay 10, Keinble's
benefit, & sum obviously entered after the beneficiary's
deduction. The takings for Cymbeline are indeed paltry,
but Charles Kemble seems to have little luck with any of
his productions, until he engaged Edmund Kean in the Autumn