Drury Lane Chronicles, Part 1, 1826-27 Table of Contents

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

Drury Lane Chronicles, Part 1, 1826-27

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