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Charles Kean [1858], [Much Ado About Nothing. A Comedy, in five acts. By William Shakespeare, in] Lacy's acting edition of plays, dramas, farces, extravaganzas, etc. etc. as performed at the various theatres. Volume 35 containing Love Knot. Much Ado About Nothing. Ticklish Times. A Lucky Hit. Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady. Double Dummy. Spectre Bridegroom. Birthplace Of Podgers. Crossing The Line. Children of the Castle. Nothing Venture Nothing Win. Fra Diavolo (Burlesque). Margaret Catchpole. My Wife's Dentist. Schoolfellows. (Thomas Hailes Lacy [etc.], London) [word count] [S40500]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
Note return to page 1 Kean mounted his production of MUCH ADO, in which he cast himself as Benedick to his wife Ellen Tree's Beatrice, during his 1858–9 farewell season, and the exhaustively researched scenic designs recorded in this acting edition mark a fitting conclusion to the career of the first actor-manager to be elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. The play opens, for example, with a scenic representation of dawn rising over Renaissance Messalina, with the harbour and the Mediterranean visible in the distance.
Note return to page 2 *These lines have been always omitted, but it would be difficult to adduce any satisfactory reason why so laughable an incident should be withheld from performance. I make this, as I have many similar restorations, leaving it to the performer's taste to adopt or reject them.—T. H. L.
Note return to page 3 *These lines have been always omitted, but it would be difficult to adduce any satisfactory reason why so laughable an incident should be withheld from performance. I make this, as I have many similar restorations, leaving it to the performer's taste to adopt or reject them.—T. H. L.
Note return to page 4 *These lines have been always omitted, but it would be difficult to adduce any satisfactory reason why so laughable an incident should be withheld from performance. I make this, as I have many similar restorations, leaving it to the performer's taste to adopt or reject them.—T. H. L.
Note return to page 5 *These lines have been always omitted, but it would be difficult to adduce any satisfactory reason why so laughable an incident should be withheld from performance. I make this, as I have many similar restorations, leaving it to the performer's taste to adopt or reject them.—T. H. L.
Note return to page 6 *Mr. Collier's folio substitutes frown; a doubtful but possible “emendation.”
Note return to page 7 *Mr. Collier's folio. The old copies read, Nor reverence, calling. divinity.
Charles Kean [1858], [Much Ado About Nothing. A Comedy, in five acts. By William Shakespeare, in] Lacy's acting edition of plays, dramas, farces, extravaganzas, etc. etc. as performed at the various theatres. Volume 35 containing Love Knot. Much Ado About Nothing. Ticklish Times. A Lucky Hit. Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady. Double Dummy. Spectre Bridegroom. Birthplace Of Podgers. Crossing The Line. Children of the Castle. Nothing Venture Nothing Win. Fra Diavolo (Burlesque). Margaret Catchpole. My Wife's Dentist. Schoolfellows. (Thomas Hailes Lacy [etc.], London) [word count] [S40500]. |
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