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Jacqueline Mulhallen The Theatre of Shelley OpenBook Publishers The Theatre of Shelley Jacqueline Mulhallen has studied and worked as an actor and writer in both England and Australia and won a scholarship to study drama in Finland. She worked as performer and writer with Lynx Theatre and Poetry and her plays Sylvia and Rebels and Friends toured England and Ireland (1987-1997). Publications include ‘Focus on Finland’, Theatre Australia, 1979; (with David Wright) ‘Samuel Johnson: Amateur Physician’, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1982; ‘Sylvia Pankhurst’s Northern Tour’, www.sylviapankhurst. com, 2008; ‘Sylvia Pankhurst’s Paintings: A Missing Link’, Women’s History Magazine, 2009 and she is a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Playhouse 1737-1832 (forthcoming). Jacqueline Mulhallen The Theatre of Shelley Cambridge 2010 Open Book Publishers CIC Ltd., 40 Devonshire Road, Cambridge, CB1 2BL, United Kingdom http://www.openbookpublishers.com © 2010 Jacqueline Mulhallen. Some rights are reserved. This book is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. This license allows for copying any part of the work for personal and non-commercial use, providing author attribution is clearly stated. Details of allowances and restrictions are available at: http://www.openbookpublishers.com As with all Open Book Publishers titles, digital material and resources associated with this volume are available from our website: http://www.openbookpublishers.com ISBN Hardback: 978-1-906924-31-7 ISBN Paperback: 978-1-906924-30-0 ISBN Digital (pdf): 978-1-906924-32-4 Acknowledgment is made to the The Jessica E. Smith and Kevin R. Brine Charitable Trust for their generous contribution towards the preparation of this volume. All paper used by Open Book Publishers is SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative), and PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes) Certified. Printed in the United Kingdom and United States by Lightning Source for Open Book Publishers To William Alderson Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements xi Note on the Text xiii List of Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Chapter One: The Theatrical Context – the Georgian Theatre in England 21 Chapter Two: Shelley’s Theatregoing, Playreading and Criticism 53 Chapter Three: Practical Technique – The Cenci 85 Chapter Four: Turning History into Art – Charles the First 115 Chapter Five: Ideal Drama – Prometheus Unbound 147 Chapter Six: Drama for a Purpose – Hellas & Fragments of an Unfinished Drama 177 Chapter Seven: Satirical Comedy – Swellfoot the Tyrant 209 Conclusion 235 Appendix I: List of Performances Seen by Shelley 243 Appendix II: The Programme of Songs with the Performance of Douglas 257 Select Bibliography 259 Index 275 List of Illustrations page Front cover: ‘Drury Lane’ (detail) by Edward Dayes (1792). Courtesy of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botani- cal Gardens, San Marino, California. 1 ‘Richard III’, engraving by John White from a drawing taken in 28 the theatre by Mr. R. Cruikshank, c. 1824, from Cumberland’s British Theatre, private collection. 2 ‘Macbeth’, engraving by John White from a drawing taken in the 30 theatre by Mr. R. Cruikshank, c. 1824, from Cumberland’s British Theatre, private collection. 3 ‘Bernard Blackmantle reading his Play in the Green Room of 32 Covent Garden Theatre’, drawn and engraved by R. Cruikshank, 10 June 1824, from The English Spy (1825). Private collection. 4 Scenes from ‘La Sylphide’: 4.1 Engraving by T. Williams; 4.2: 49 lithograph from a drawing by A. Laederich, c. 1832. Kind per- mission of Ivor Guest and Dance Books. 5 Covent Garden, 1828, unknown artist, from Fanny Kemble by 57 Dorothie de Bear Bobbé, private collection. 6 ‘Henry IV Pt I’, engraving by John White from a drawing taken 58 in the theatre by Mr. R. Cruikshank, c. 1824, from Cumberland’s British Theatre, private collection. 7 ‘Cut wood with bay and mountains’, watercolour, artist 63 uncknown. Grieve Family Collection. Courtesy of Senate House Library, University of London, MS1007/10. Set Design for ‘Winter’s Tale’, undated. 8 ‘The School for Scandal’, wood engraving by Mr. Bonner from a 64 drawing taken in the theatre by Mr. R. Cruikshank, c. 1824, from Cumberland’s British Theatre, private collection. 9 ‘Eliza O’Neill as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, 86 Act II, Scene ii’, lithograph after George Dawe (1781-1829) by F.C. Lewis. By kind permission of The Art Archive/Garrick Club.
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