Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble
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Author:
	Ritchie, Fiona.
Type:
	Book Monograph
Year:
	2023
Publication Information:
	London: Arden Shakespeare--Bloomsbury, 2023. xii + 251
Series Statement:
	(The Arden Shakespeare. Shakespeare in the Theatre.)
Annotation:
	Traces the impact of siblings Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble on Shakespeare acting, focusing on their early stage ventures including King John and Othello; their productions of Henry VIII and Coriolanus at Drury Lane; their involvement with a stage production of the Shakespeare forgery Vortigern (1796); Kemble's management of Covent Garden theatre and the OP (Old Price) riots during a performance of Macbeth; and both of their performances as Hamlet. Includes an appendix of "Siddons's and Kemble's performances together in London," 165-73.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Kemble, John Philip; Siddons, Sarah
Tags:
	Actors, Acting, Directors, Directing, Apocrypha, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Henry VIII, King John, Othello, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Stage and Theater History
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	aaao795