PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Theatres Royal: Proprietors & Lessees
Stephen Price, the American Impresario
‘The Emigration Craze’
George Yarnold & The Origins of the Drury Lane Chronicles
RESEARCHING DRURY LANE’S HISTORY
Four Key Authorities
Primary Sources
Coverage & Methodology
PRELUDE TO THE 1826-7 SEASON AT DRURY LANE
Mr Bish Withdraws & Stephen Price Succeeds
Stalwarts of Price’s Company
Stars, Recruits & Personalities
Pre-Season Events
‘The Cox Affair’ & Edmund Kean’s Exile in America
THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE OPENS, 1826-7 SEASON
Season’s Highlights & Themes
The Company Included
Performances , Actors, Authors & Events
APPENDICES
Drury Lane Massively Overbuilt, 1823
Drury Lane Performances, 1826-27
Actors, Authors & Personalities
Green Room Marriages
Breeches Parts & Other Revelations
His Majesty Attends Drury Lane
Kean’s Ways of Death
‘Ben Nazir’: Edmund Kean’s Homeric Failure
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