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a` Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 113 Hallowmas Eve, or,UndertheOldChurch Agnes Sorel, music by Mary Anne a` Beckett, Porch, 148 205 Pedlar’s Acre, or, The Wife of Seven Husbands, editor, Figaro in London, 205 250 Poor-Law Commissioner, 205, 207 The Prophet of the Moor, or, The Fire Raiser, Red Riding Hood, music by Mary Anne a` 169, 171 Beckett, 205 The Tower of Nesle, 149 The Revolt of the Workhouse,musicfrom Alnwick, 46 Michael Kelly, Daniel Auber, American Revolution, 48 CharlesWesley, 183, 202, 206 Amherst, John Henry 230 The Yellow Dwarf, or, The King of the Gold The Assassin Labourer, or, The White Farm, Mines, 146 171 Abbott, William The Black Phantom, 214 as Lothair in The Miller and his Men, 227 Buonaparte’s Invasion of Russia, or, The as Murdock in The Robber’s Bride, 227 Conﬂagration of Moscow, 15, 246 Aberdeen, 215 The Shipwreck of the Grosvenor East Indiaman, The Abergavenny, or, The Child of the Wreck, 93, 93 223, 224 The Solitary of Mount Savage, or Fate of Charles Addison, Henry R. the Bold, 230, 247 Lo Zingaro, or, The Castle of Abruzzi, 100 Will Watch, the Bold Smuggler, or, Blood Addison, Joseph demands its Victim, 44, 208, 213 Cato, 24 Andrews, Richard Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen dowager, as April in Secrets Worth Knowing, 89 55 as Pedrillo in The Castle of Andalusia, 89 Adelphi Theatre, 14, 115, 153, 159, 171, 174, 192, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 138 193, 195 Anselm of Canterbury, 138 agrarian riots, 175, 177, 254 Anti-Jacobin riots, Birmingham, 1791 159 Agricola, Georgius Anti-Jacobins, 56, 105, 107, 108, 123 On Subterranean Beings,dwarfsasminers,146 anti-Semitism, 243, 246 agricultural workers, 16, 17, 82, 114, 166, 167, 170 anti-theatrical prejudice, 10, 11, 20, 25, 49 Aikenhead, Mary Frances Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, 66 St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin, 191 Aris’ Birmingham Gazette, 58 Alcester, 70 Arne, Michael, composer and David Garrick Alexis, Willibald (Georg Wilhelm Heinrich libretto Haring)¨ Cymon, ﬁve-act opera, 48 Walladmor, 209 Arnold, Samuel James 28, 29 Almar, George, 157 The Devil’s Bridge, 154 The Charcoal Burner, or, The Dropping Well of manager, English Opera House, 143, 145 Knaresborough, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153 The Woodman’s Hut, or, The Burning Forest, The Death Light, a Tale of the Irish Rebellion, 230, 235, 236, 237, 238, 240, 251 178 Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 73, 214, 239

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Ashford, Mary bankruptcy, 6, 52, 53, 60, 84, 103, 108, 125, 233 murder victim, 128 Bannister, John, 90 Ashton-in-Makerfield, 135 as Freemason, 86 Ashton-under-Lyne, 26, 86, 106, 132, 168 as Michael the Ferryman in The Adopted Masonic interlude, Catches and Glees by some Child, 86 Masonic Brothers from Mottram, 86 as Vapid in The Dramatist, 86 Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre, 7, 15, 68, 210, 230, comic routine, Bannister’s Budget, 86 247 satire on rival organization, The Club of Queer Atherstone, 128, 196, 218 Fellows, 86 Atholl, John Murray, 5th Duke of, 85 Barish, Jonas Atkinson, George The Anti-theatrical Prejudice, 25 attack on immorality of Salisbury Theatre, 22 Barlow, Richard, and George William Reeve Auber, Daniel Grey, the Collier, 139, 141, 230, 252, 253 Fra Diavolo, libretto Eugene` Scribe, 206 Barnett, Charles Zachary Audley, Catherine, 180, 188, 189 The Bell-ringer, or, The Hunchback of Notre Ayliffe, John Dame, 62, 168 as Antimony in A Lesson for Gentlemen, 144 Swing, or, The Rick Burner, 14, 159, 168 as Bartolo in The Minerali, 144 Barnett, Edward as Bobby RidruthinThe Cornish Miners, 144 manager, Chilworth, 229 Ayton, Richard Barnstaple, 95 Rendezvous, or, Fright upon Fright, 92 Barnwell, 215, 241 Barrymore, William Baillie, Joanna, 46 The Dog of Montargis, or, The Forest of Bondy, Baker, Sarah 27 manager, Kent circuit with theatres in Monks and Smugglers, or Provision for the Canterbury, Rochester, Maidstone, Convent, 210 Tunbridge Wells, Folkestone, Hastings, Wallace, or The Scottish Chieftain, 190, 222 Faversham, 46, 198 Bartholomew Fair, 40 ballet, 29, 99 Bartley, George Balls, John S. as Hubert Kynan in The Cornish Miners, 144 as Ferdinando in The Castle of Andalusia, 89 Bath, 1, 8, 32, 38, 40, 144, 221 Balls, Mrs Battle of Copenhagen, 94 as Victoria in The Castle of Andalusia, 89 The Battle of the Nile, 94 Bamford, Samuel, 60, 106 The Battle of Trafalgar, 93 Bampfylde Moore Carew, or The King of Beggars, Bayly, Thomas Haynes 181 The Spitalfields Weaver, 130 Banbury, 70, 233 Beacham Banim, John 178 as Sheriff in The Smuggler’s Daughter, 215 The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century, 177 Beachem and Bennett The Boyne Water, 177 Masonic songs, 95 Captain John Rock, 177, 178, 179 Beazley, Samuel The Croppy, a Tale of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, Ivanhoe, or, the Knight Templar, 100 178 Beccles, 11, 72 Damon and Pythias, 178 Bedford, John Russell, 4th Duke of, 130 The Fetches, 178 Beer Act, 1830, 53 The Irishman’s Home, 14, 180, 197, 208 Belles Assemblée, 191 John Doe, or the Peep O’Day, 177 benefit night, 5, 6, 12, 21, 26, 28, 85, 86, 89, 90, The Outlaw Chief 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 123, 152, or, The Last of the Guerrillas, 159, 178 180, 187, 190, 200, 203, 239 The Sergeant’s Wife, 115, 178, 197 Bennet, John, Shoemaker Poet, 202 The Sister of Charity, 180, 191, 192, 193, 197 Bennett The Stolen Sheep, 197 as Colin and Harlequin in Mother Goose, or A Tale of the O’Hara Family, or, Captain John Harlequin and the Golden Egg, 71 Rock, 14, 159, 175, 177 title role in George Barnwell, 71 Banim, John and Michael Bennett, George John Bit o’Writing, 197 as Stephen Kynanin The Cornish Miners, 143

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Bennett, J. Blanchard, Thomas manager, Shrewsbury, 249 as Lieutenant Althamin Bandit of the Blind Bennett, Mrs Mine, 141 manager, Devonport, 239 Bland, Georgiana, nee´ Glover, 154 Bentley, Elizabeth Bland, James worker in flax mill, 112 as Bobby Bullweek in Michael o’ the Waingate, Bernard, William Bayle 155 The Pilot, A Tale of the Sea, 171 manager, Sheffield Theatre, 154 Berwick-upon-Tweed, 45 Bland, James and Georgiana Bessemer, Henry managers, Sheffield Theatre, 154, 155, 156 steel process, 100 Bland, Maria Theresa, nee´ Romanzini, 154 Betterton, Thomas, 95 Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Act, 183 Betts ‘Blood will have Blood’, or, the Battle of the manager, Eversley, 92 Bridges, 67 Betty, William Henry West Bloomfield, Robert 202, 203 title role in Gusavus Vasa, 34 Rural Tales, 202 Beverly, Henry The Miller’s Maid, 202, 204 manager, troupe from Royal West London boatmen, 220 Theatre, 97 Boddie, Brother (Druid) Bible, 19 as Ancient Druid in Caractacus, 99 Bickerstaff, Isaac Bolton, 39, 106, 115, 127, 162, 165, 232 The Hypocrite, 22, 23, 25 Bolton Chronicle, 40 The Life and Adventures of Ambrose Gwinett, Book of English Trades, 6 198 Booth, Junius Brutus Bickerstaffe, Isaac, music Thomas Arne as Jerry Sneak in The Mayor of Garratt, 33 Love in a Village, 31 as Octavian in The Mountaineers, 33 Bideford, 60 title role in Bertram, 33 Bill o’Jacks, or, The Unknown Assassins, 218, 219 tour of America, 1827 to 1836, 33 Billington, Elizabeth Wichsell, 35 tour of Holland and Belgium, 33 Birch, Samuel Booth, Michael, 7, 124, 163, 224, 253 The Adopted Child, 86 Booth, Sarah The Smugglers, 211 as Amanthis in AChildofNature, 231 Bird, James as Annette in The Maid and the Magpie, 231 The Smuggler’s Daughter, 215 as Claudine in The Miller and his Men, 231 Birmingham, 1, 6, 10, 11, 15, 21, 26, 33, 39, 40, 46, The Bowtun Luminary, 127 58, 60, 73, 76, 97, 101, 159, 196, 226, 232, Bradford, 99 233, 239, 240 Bradley Birmingham Bean Club, 59 as Lawless in Bandit of the Blind Mine, 141 Birmingham Bull Ring Riots, 1839, 159 Bradstock, 123 Birmingham, Minor Theatre, 171 Brady of Sheffield Birmingham Theatre Royal, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, defiance of Stamp Act, 111 90, 196 Braham, John, 32, 154 Bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon, 241, 243 manager, St. James, 130 Bishop, Sir Henry Brecon Theatre, 90 music, The Barber of Seville,librettobyJohn Brereton, Thomas, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fawcett, lyrics by Daniel Terry 72 Dragoons, 61 music, The Dog of Montargis, 27 Brewood, 33 music, The Miller and his Men, 230, 231 Brewood Theatre Black Act, 1723, 216, 219 slitting women’s clothing, 50 Black Act, abolished 1823, 216 brick makers, 239 Blackburn, 106, 189 Bridgnorth, 90 The Black Dwarf, 109 Bridport, 60 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 221 Brierley, Benjamin Blake, William The Lancashire Weaver Lad, 132 ‘The Chimney Sweeper’, 199 Brighton, 70, 120

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Brine, James Butler, Samuel Tolpuddle Martyrs, 83 itinerate theatre company, 44 Bristol, 8, 10, 26, 32, 46, 55, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, manager Richmond circuit, 139 89, 102, 159, 193 Buxton, 142 Bristol Riots, October 1831, 61 Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron, 75, 119 Britannia Theatre, 219 The British Labourer’s Protector and Factory Calton Weavers Strike, 1787, 160 Child’s Friend, 125 Campbell, Thomas, 35 The British Volunteer, 106 Canterbury, 1, 46, 53, 152, 196, 200 Broadbent, James Canterbury Theatre, 47 coiner, 226 Canterbury, Orange Street Theatre, 198 Brocken Apparition, 153 Captain Rock, see Rock, Captain Brooke, Henry Captain Swing, see Swing, Captain Gustavus Vasa, 26, 34 Captain Swing’s circular to his country cousins, Brookland, 123 167 Brooks, Mrs Caractacus, King of Britain, or, Druids 1780 years Dollalolla in Tom Thumb, 38 ago, 99 Brownrigg, Elizabeth, 113 Cardiff, Royal Olympic Theatre, 196 Bryant, John Frederick, 202 Carew, Bampfylde Moore Buchan, Peter TheLifeandAdventureofBampfyldeMoore Peterhead Smugglers of the Last Century, or, Carew, 181 William and Annie, 214 Carlile, Richard, 11, 17, 18, 20, 35, 37, 39, 41, 49, Buckingham, James Silk, 4 73, 108, 167, 182, 205 Buckinghamshire, Albinia, Countess of lectures in Rotunda, Surrey Institution, 167 as Dollololla in Tom Thumb, 37 The Lion, 17, 200 Buckstone, John Baldwin Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Queen of The Death Fetch, or, The Fatal Warning, 178 Denmark and Norway, 119 The Forgery, 195 Cartwright, Edmund The Happiest Day of my Life, 55 power loom, 124 Luke the Labourer, or, The Lost Son, 14, 159, Cartwright, William 171, 172, 174, 198 Huddersﬁeld mill owner, 33, 162 Peter Bell the Waggoner, 174 Catalani, Angelica, 154 The Wreck Ashore, or, A Bridegroom from the Catherine Audley, or The Recluse of Ledbury, 180, Sea, 94 189 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Catholic Emancipation, 1829, 175, 243 Eugene Aram, 101 censorship, 3, 8, 15, 16, 26, 28, 34, 117, 120, 158, Select Committee on Dramatic Literature, 169, 196, 210, 212, 219 100 Centlivre, Susanna Bunn, Alfred 13, 21, 22, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, The Ghost, or, The Affrighted Farmer, 85 132 The Wonder, A Woman Keeps a Secret, 40 manager, Birmingham Theatre Royal, 57, The Charcoal Burner; or The Fair Maid of York, 59 152 The Minister and the Mercer, 13 charcoal burners, 13, 147, 153 burlesque, 29, 35, 146 charity schools, 57, 189, 190 burletta, 3, 11, 27, 29, 32, 85, 130, 219 Charles Edward Stuart, the Pretender in Burns, Robert Scotland, 91 The Dumfries Volunteers, 49 Charles VI, 191 The Jolly Beggars, 181 Charley over the Water, 91 Burroughs, Watkins Charlotte, Queen, 226 manager, Surrey, 247 Charlston, Abraham Burton, 13, 123 executed for attack on mill, 161 Burton, Mrs Chartist movement 1838 to 1848, 1, 10 Masonic Epilogue, 91 People’s Charter, 1838, by William Lovett and Bury, 60 Francis Place, 132 Bury St Edmunds, 72 Chateau Bromege, or, The Clock Struck Four, 128

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Chatterley, Louisa Simeon Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 188 as Juliana in Honey Moon, 20 ‘Dejection, An Ode’, 151 as Lady Teazle in School for Scandal, 20 lectures in Rotunda, Surrey Institution, 167 as Mrs Lovemore in Way to Keep Him, 20 collective bargaining, 2, 3, 12, 81, 82, 107, 132, Chaucer, Geoffrey 134 Canterbury Tales, 180 Collier, Jeremy Cheltenham, 96 Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of Cheshire, 67, 123 the English Stage, 20, 25 Chester, 45, 96, 186 colliers, 77, 90, 134, 137, 139, 140, 147, 152, 252 Chetwynd, William Colman, George, the Elder Examiner of Plays, 212 The Jealous Wife, 55 Chichester, George Hamilton, Earl of Belfast, Colman, George, the Younger 120, 122 Ali Baba, or, The Forty Thieves, 139 children Bold Stroke for a Husband, 112 working hours, 17 Examiner of Plays, 1824–1836, 34 Chimney Sweepers Act, 1788, 199 The Heir at Law, 51 Chimney Sweepers Act, 1834, 199, 203 The Iron Chest, 81, 90 chimney sweeps, Liverpool, 200 John Bull, or, an Englishman’s Fireside, 55, 91, Chipping Norton, 70 103 Chipping Sodbury, 70 The Mountineers, 26, 33, 37 Cholmondeley, George James, Lord New Hay at the Old Market, 32 as King Pic-Nic, 37 The Poor Gentleman, 55, 91, 100, 153, 190 Christian VII, King of Denmark and Norway, The Review, or, The Wags of Windsor, 86 119 Who Wants a Guinea?, 51 Chubb, W. P., 167 Colquhoun, Patrick, 209 Cibber, Colley Combination Act 1825, 3, 95, 98 The Nonjuror, 22, 23 Combination Acts 1799 and 1800 2, 11, 12, 15, 19, Cinque Ports, 220, 222 47, 76, 78, 80, 83, 84, 85, 87 Cirencester, 70 temporarily rescinded 1824, 15, 82 City of London Theatre, 166, 196 Commercial Herald, 59 City Pantheon, 42 Congreve, William Clare, John, 202 The Way of the World, 64 Clarke, William Vindication, 25 The Braintrees, 217 Conspiracy Laws, 1825, 82 Clarkson, Thomas, 224 Cooke, Thomas Porter Claughton Wood Poachers, ballad, 217 as Alessandro Massaroni in The Brigand, 171 coal and copper mines, 193 as Arthur Bryght in The Press Gang, 171 coal miners, 13, 16, 134, 147, 153, 239 as Dick Fid in Red Rover, 171 coal mines, 90, 134, 139, 252 as Harry in My Poll and my Partner Joe, 155 The Coast Blockade, or, The Kentish Smuggler, 14, as Long John Cofﬁn in The Pilot, 171 213 as the Monster in Presumption, 171 Cobbett, William 35, 108 as Philip in Luke the Labourer, 171, 172 Political Register, 167 as William in Black-Eyed Susan, 171 Rural Rides, 160, 220 Coop, John Cobham, Thomas introduction, The Brunnin’ o’ Westhowtun as Richard Parker in The Mutiny at the Nore, 81 Factory, 161 Coburg Theatre, 8, 14, 15, 27, 28, 33, 44, 68, 78, Copeland, William 81, 92, 93, 102, 104, 122, 124, 137, 138, 139, manager, Dumfries, 228 140, 141, 155, 159, 174, 177, 178, 180, 198, Corn Laws, 1815, 14, 61, 192, 195 211, 212, 215, 217, 218, 225, 230, 232, 233, Cornwall, 219 247, 248, 249 Corresponding Societies Act, 1799, 12, 76, 78, coiners, 14, 208, 209, 225, 226, 227, 229 80, 98 Colchester, 101, 214, 233 corresponding society, 19, 76, 77, 80 Cole, G. D. H., 8 cottage industry, 116, 190, 225 on trade unions and friendly societies, 96 cotton mill, Atherstone, 128

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cotton mills, 106, 112 Walladmor translation, 209 Cotton Mills and Factories Act, 1819, 126 Derby, 60, 61, 65, 102, 159, 195, 200 cotton weavers, 116 deus ex machina, 14, 112, 230 County News-Room, 100 Devon, 50, 105, 219 coup de th´eatreˆ , 230 Devonport, 38, 50, 66, 97, 152, 181, 239, 240 Courier, 35 Devonshire, William George Spencer Covent Garden, 6, 7, 8, 14, 24, 26, 27, 34, 38, 40, Cavendish, 6th Duke of, 46 41, 46, 48, 54, 57, 62, 65, 71, 85, 89, 98, Dibdin, Charles 103, 113, 124, 145, 147, 153, 178, 180, 183, Harlequin Freemason, 85 190, 198, 206, 219, 226, 227, 228, 230, My Poll and My Partner Joe, 9 231, 235, 240, 242 Harlequin Benedick, 148 Cowley, Hannah, 40, 46 The Waterman, 26 Belle’s Stratagem, 40, 54, 100 ‘Tippetywitchit’, 71 Cox, Jeffrey, 253 Dibdin, Charles, Jr Crediton, 91, 229 The Foresters, 98 Crisp, Charles Phillip and his Dog, 27 as Falstaff in Henry IV, 95 Dibdin, Thomas John, 7, 32, 147, 247 Exordium on Free-Masonry, 95 Abbot of San Martino, 84 manager, troupe in Carmarthenshire and adaptations from Scott’s Waverley novels, Shropshire, 95 84 Crouch, Anna Maria The Birth Day, or, The Twin Brothers, 86 title role in Lodoiska, 238 The Blue Baron, 85 Cruikshank, George, 28 The Dog of Montargis, or, The Forest of Bondy, Cumberland, Prince William Augustus, Duke 27 of, 83 The Fate of Calas, 138 Cumberland, Richard The Force of Conscience, 85 The West Indian, 190 Kedeth, or, The Hag of Poland, 85 manager, Sadler’s Wells, 221 D’Argout, Antoine Maurice Apollinaire, Comte, manager, Surrey, 84 118 Masonry, or, The Secret Discovered, 85 D’Egville, James Harvey, choreographer, Henry Mother Goose, or Harlequin and the Golden Bishop composer Egg, 70, 71 Caractacus, ballet, 99 The President and the Peasant’s Daughter, 84 Damp Fire, or, The Murder in the Mine, 140 Suil Dhuv the Coiner, 226, 228 Daniel, George, 78 Dibdin, Thomas John, and John Fawcett Danks, John The Secret Mine, 108 accused murderer, 128 Dickens, Charles, 72, 192, 196 Darby, Abraham Nicholas Nickleby, 72 iron smelting, 90 Dighton, William, 226 Davenport, T. W. Dimond, William manager, Southam, 70 The Broken Sword, 92 Daventry, 70 Gustavus Vasa, music by Michael Kelly, 206 Davies, John The Nymph of the Grotto, or, A Daughter’s bookseller, 17 Vow, 40 Davies, Robertson, 171 Disney, Walt Davy, Humphrey Snow White,dwarfsasminers,146 safety lamp, 140 dockworkers, 143, 154, 220, 224 Davy, John, 202 Doctor Faustus in London Days of May, 1832, 62, 102 a Lecture on living Heads, 29 debtors’ prison, 14, 166, 186 documentary melodrama, 15, 128, 218 de Camp, Vincent, 33, 39 domestic melodrama, 7, 163, 195, 196, 226 Delamore, John domestic servants, 112, 113 title role in Black Githian, 145 Don Juan, or, The Libertine Destroyed, 169, 230, De Quincey, Thomas 240 Joan of Arc, 241, 243 Don Juan, or, The Reprobate Destroyed, 22

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Double or Quits Egan, Pierce factory farce, 42 The Life of an Actor, 44 Dover Theatre, 85 Elliston, Robert 21, 32, 39, 139 Dowton, William, 24, 47 as Major Sturgeon in The Mayor of Garratt, 32 as Clod in Young Quaker, 23 as Reuben Glenroy in Town and Country, 59 as Dr Cantwell in The Hypocrite, 22, 23 manager, Birmingham Theatre Royal, 57, 59 as Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer, 23 title role in Sylvester Daggerwood, 32 as Major Sturgeon in The Mayor of Garrett, 23 Elphinstone, Emma as Raton in The Minister and the Mercer, 122 as Constance Fondlove in Love’s Chase, 66 as Rupert in Jealous Wife, 23 as Julia in The Hunchback, 66 as Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals, 23 as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 66 manager of Orange Street Theatre, Elton, E. W. Canterbury, 199 Paul the Poacher, or, The Assassin Labourer, The Drama, or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine, 219 248 Ely, 60 Dream of the Sea; or, The Wreckers, 225 Ely and Littleport riots, 1816, 159 Druids, 12, 98, 99, 100, 107, 250 Emley, Mrs Cardigan, 98 as Zaphyra in The Secret Mine, 108 labouring class in the Midlands, 98 as Zorilda in Timour the Tartar, 108 Wapping, 98 enclosures, 166, 169, 170, 209 West End of London, 98 loss of commons, 1760–1820,through Westminster, 98 appropriation of public land by private Drury Lane, 6, 7, 8, 13, 23, 24, 26, 27, 35, 40, 44, owners, 169 46, 48, 49, 81, 82, 86, 92, 99, 112, 114, 115, English Opera House, 20, 21, 115, 141, 142, 144, 117, 119, 122, 125, 139, 145, 193, 194, 206, 145, 178, 191, 192, 203, 204, 205 211, 214, 230, 235, 238, 242, 243, 246, 252 equal pay for women, 17 Dryden, John equestrian melodrama, 108 Arthur and Emmeline, music by Henry Purcell, Erskine, Thomas Alexander, 6th Earl of Kellie, 142, 143, 145 85 du Cange, Victor Essex, 101 Th´er`ese, the Orphan of Geneva, 55 European Magazine, 84 Dublin Freeman, 31 Evesham, 70 Duck, Stephen, 201 Examiner of Plays, 3, 15, 34, 35, 84, 120, 176, 195, Dumas, Alexandre 212, 231 La Tour de Nesle, 149 Exeter, 1, 23, 24 Dumfries Journal, 49 Dundas, Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron, 85 Factory Act, 1802 18, 126 Dundee, Victoria Pavilion, 196 Health and Morals of Apprentices Act, 18 Durham, 253 Factory Act, 1833, 38, 126 Durham theatre circuit factory burnings, 14, 15, 126, 231 North Shields, Sunderland, South Shields, factory melodrama, 7, 13, 112, 163, 165, 166 Stockton, and Scarborough, 46 factory riots, 11, 254 dwarfs as miners, 146 False Lights Law, 1735, 219 Falstaff News Room, 100 East Anglian riots, 1816, 159 farce, 11, 13, 29, 32, 35, 38, 41, 42, 55, 67, 81, 135, East India Company, 130, 183 139, 145, 146, 169, 181, 212, 219 East London Theatre, 68 Farley, Charles Eastlake, Charles as Grindoff in The Miller and his Men, 231 paintings of the Brigand, 154, 194 Harlequin and Mother Shipton, 148 Ebsworth, Joseph title role in Timour the Tartar, 231 Saul Braintree the Poacher, 217, 218 Farrell, John 44 Eccles, Bannister as Jack Adams in Mutiny at the Nore, 81 owner Jubilee Factory, Blackburn, 190 manager of Royal Pavilion, 44 Edinburgh, 41, 45 Peregrine Proteus, or, The Life of an Actor, 44, Edinburgh Annual Register, 170 45, 72

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The Reign of Terror, or the Horrors of the French Fitzball, Edward Revolution, 81, 138 The Floating Beacon, or, The Norwegian title role in Will Watch, the Bold Smuggler, 44 Wreckers, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 229 Farren, William TheInchCapeBell, or, Guy Ruthven, the as Count Bertrand in The Minister and the Outcast, 225 Mercer, 120, 121, 122 The Inchcape Bell, or, The Dumb Sailor Boy, as Matthew Hopkins in The Witch-Finder, 81 220, 224, 225 Faucit, John Saville Iwan, or, The Mines of Ischinski, 147 Fair Rosamond, 203 Joan of Arc, or, The Maid of Orleans, 240, 241, manager, Company circuit, Deal, Greenwich, 242, 243, 251 Margate, Ramsgate, St Albans, and Red Rover, 171 Sandwich, 250, 251 Fitzgerald, Edward The Miller’s Maid, or, Love in Humble Life, The Grinders of Damascus, 156 198, 202, 203, 204, 205 Fitzgerald, Thomas ‘Sweep Sweep Sweep!’ or, The Revolt of the stage impersonation of Daniel O’Connell, 30, Chumnies, 180, 203 31 Fawcett, John 72 Fitzgibbon as April in Secrets Worth Knowing, 89 manager, Birmingham Theatre Royal, 57 as Briarly in The Robber’s Bride, 228 Fitzroy Theatre, 202 as Job Thornberry in John Bull, or, The flax mills, 112 Englishman’s Fireside, 103 Fletcher, John, playwright as Sir Edward Mortimer in The Iron Chest, Bonduca, 99 90 Fletcher, John Eulogium on Freemasonry, 90 executed for attack on mill, 161 Fawcett, John, and Thomas Dibdin Fletcher, Ralph, Colonel, Bolton Militia, The Secret Mine, music by Henry Bishop, 147 161 female education, 111 flour mills, 231 Female Radical Reformers, 107, 108, 109 Folkstone, 97 Female Reform Societies, 47, 105 food riots, 2, 11, 106, 110, 254 Fenning, Elizabeth, 113, 183 food riots, 1795 and 1810, 159 Fidelity’s Search after Friendship, Love, Freedom, food riots, Calton, 1800, 160 and Mirth Foote, Maria pantomime on Freemasonry, 86 as Amanthis in the Child of Nature, 40 Fielding, Henry 26, 212 as Eglantine in The Nymph of the Grotto, 40 Tom Thumb the Great, 16, 35, 37, 38 as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 40 Figaro in London, 113, 205 as Letitia Hardy in Belle’s Stratagem, 40 Fildes, Mary, ix, 107 as Maggy in the Highland Reel, 40 firedamp, 134, 140, 252, 253 as Maria Darlington in A Roland for an Oliver, The Fire King, Harlequin, and the Water Queen, 40, 41 68 as Rosalind in As You Like It, 40 Fisher, Charles. as Violante in The Wonder as Fiorello in The Barber of Seville, 72 A Woman Keeps a Secret, 40 Fisher, David, 72, 73 Foote, Samuel as Figaro in The Barber of Seville, 72 The Mayor of Garratt, 15, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 37, managed theatre in Suffolk, 47 204 manager, circuit in East Anglia, rural Suffolk, Foresters, 12, 15, 97, 98, 101, 189 72 Forfar Fisher, David and Charles Masonic Lodge as theatre, 90 Masonic songs at King’s Lynn Theatre, 88 The Forty Thieves, or, The Woodcutter and his Fisher, George Son, 240 as Officer in The Barber of Seville, 73 Foster, Joseph Fisher, J. Horbury mill owner, 162 as Basil in The Barber of Seville, 72 Fox, Charles James, 175 Fisher, W. member of Druids, 98 as Tallboy in The Barber of Seville, 73 Fox, William Johnson, 35

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Fraser, Brother (Mason), 91 Glendower, Owen, 239 Eulogium on Druidism, 99 Globe Theatre, 1833–38 in regalia, recites Masonic address, 91 formerly Rotunda, Surrey Institution, 167 title role in Hamlet, 98 Gloucester, 75, 96 fraternal organizations, 83, 86, 98 Gloucester, Prince William, Duke of, 93, 123 Freemasons, 12, 15, 65, 83, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 95, Glover, Julia, 154 96, 97, 99, 101, 105, 123 as Lady Townley in The Provoked Husband, exclusion of women, 95 154 French invasion, 2 as Madame Burkenstaff in The Minister and French Revolution, 1, 34, 48, 56, 80, 81 the Mercer, 122 friendly societies, 11, 15, 47, 75, 83, 84, 87, 88, 95, Godwin, William, 224 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 105, 107, 109, 153, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 190, 224, 243, 254 Faust, 147 Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers, 82, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, 136 170 The Golden Goose, or, Harlequin, the Goblin of Fulwell, Ulpian the Mine, 146 Like Will to Like, 137 The Golden Rump, lost play attributed to Henry Furnival, Thomas de, 1st Lord, 155 Fielding, 34 Goldsmith, Oliver Galashiels, 91 She Stoops to Conquer, 23, 57, 132 Galt, John Gordon Riots, 1780, 159 The Ayrshire Legatees, 24 gothic melodrama, 137, 143, 148, 188 The Invisible Witness, 38 Gott, H. The Provost, 42, 43, 44, 72 The Elshie, or, The Wizard of the Moor, 239 The Gamblers, or, The Murderers at the Desolate Goward, Mary Anne, 191 Cottage, 218 as Ann Oswald in The Cornish Miners, 143 Gaols Act, 1823, 187 Graham, Sir James, 205 Garrick, David 35 Grand National Consolidated Trade Unions, Catherine and Petruchio, 48 1834, 3, 249 Florizel and Perdita, 48 Granger, James, 160 manager, Drury Lane, 48 Graves, Joseph Prologue to Cymon, read byThomas King, The Tempter, 113 48 Green, Brother (Mason) Garrick Theatre, 219 among Masonic players, Weymouth, 123 Garthwaite as John the Shop Boy in The Minister and the Stockport theatre manager, 37 Mercer, 123 Gay, John Green, Mary, aka Polly Button The Beggar’s Opera, 105, 181, 212 murder victim, 128 Gazeteer and New Daily Advertiser, 186 Greene, Robert Genest, John, 26, 34, 40, 144, 185, 211, 221, Conny-Catching Pamphlets, 181 227 The Green Gosling, or, The Poacher, 219 genre painting, 192, 196 Greenwood, Thomas George III, 52, 93, 123, 186, 226 Paul the Pilot, or, The Wreck of the Raven in George IV, 38, 53 1692, 94 Gerard, Sir John, Twelfth Baronet, 135, 136 Grenville, Richard, Colonel Ghost Walk of Weddington, 13, 128, 218 as Noodle in Tom Thumb, 37 Gibbs, John Grey, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl, 65, 121 landlord of The Coach and Horses, 53 Grifﬁn, Gerald 197 Gillies, Robert Pearse Suil Dhuv the Coiner, 226, 227, 228 Houwald’s The Light-Tower, 221 Tales of the Munster Festivals, 227, 228 Gillray, James Grigson, Daniel, master of the Nancy, 94 Blowing up the Pic-Nics, 35, 37 Grim the Collier of Croyden, or, The Devil and his Glasgow, 41, 42, 45, 60 Dame, 137 Glasgow Green and Spa Fields Riots, 1816, 61, Grim Will, the Collier of Croydon, or, The Death 159 of the Red King, 137

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Grimaldi, Joseph Harlequin and King Lud of Ludgate, 166 as Squire Bugle and Clown in Mother Goose, or Harlequin and the King of the Ruby Mine, 69 Harlequin and the Golden Egg, 71 harlequinade, 29, 68, 69, 70, 71, 153, 166, 181 Grimm, Wilhelm and Jacob Harley, John Pritt The King of the Golden Mountain, 136 title role in Caractacus, 99 The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn, 136 Harrison, Brother (Mason) Snow White,dwarfsasminers,146 Masonic song at King’s Lynn Theatre, 88 The Grounds of Masonry, one-act interlude, 95 Harrogate, 183 Guernsey, 91, 241, 246 Hartley, David Guildford, 248 coiner, 225 guilds, tradesmen and artisans, 83 Hartley, Isaac Gulliver, Captain Isaac, 209, 210 coiner, 226 Gunpowder Plot, 249, 250, 251 Hastings, 46, 53, 55, 198, 213, 222, 240 Guy Fawkes and the Gun-Powder Plot Hauptmann, Gerhart performed by children, 29 The Weavers, 132 Hauser, Kaspar, 123 habeas corpus, 76 Hawes, William Haigh, Thomas musical score to Sister of Charity, 191 the steward in The Irishman’s Home, 197 Hay, Benjamin Haines, John Thomas 155 as Ralph Roughstone in Michael o’ the as Walter in Michael o’ the Waingate, 155 Waingate, 155 The Factory Boy, 7 Hay, Brother (Mason) The Haunted Hulk, 155 among Masonic players, Weymouth, 123 The Idiot Witness, or, a Tale of Blood, 50, 155 as Bertrand in The Minister and the Mercer, 123 Michael o’ the Waingate, or Shefﬁeld in Olden Masonic songs at Weymouth, 94 Time, 155, 156 Haymarket, 7, 8, 24, 29, 35, 38, 46, 57, 66, 68, My Poll and My Partner Joe, 9, 10, 13, 155 92, 114, 175, 183, 202, 212, 247 The Unhallowed Templar, 155 Haymarket, Tailors’ Riot. 1805, 159 Haines, Mrs Hazlitt, William as the Maid o’ the Waingate in Michael o’ the lectures in Rotunda, Surrey Institution, 167 Waingate, 155 Hazlitt, William Carew Halevy,´ Fromental Faiths and Folklore,‘Knockers’,dwarfsas La Juive, libretto by Eugene` Scribe, 243, 246 miners, 146 Half-Price Riots, 1762, 48 Heath, William Half-Price Riots, Bristol, 1810, 159 Swing! taken from the life, 167 Halifax, 99, 200 Heathcoat, John Halifax Theatre Heathcoat Lace Factory, 61, 131, 132, 162 taunting wealthy patrons, 51 Hemmings, Henry Hamilton, D. as Don Pepe Caraﬁn in Masaniello, 138 title role in Rob Roy, 91 as Marc Antoine Calas in The Fate of Calas, 138 Hamilton, Miss as Scipio Bourgognino in Don Carlos, 138 as Billy, title role in The Climbing Boy, 200 as William II in Grim Will, the Collier of Hammett, James Croydon, 138 Tolpuddle Martyrs, 83 Henry Grattan Plunket’s The Minerali, 144 Hammond, W. J., and C. Raymond Henry III, 155 managers, Pantheon, Liverpool, 104 Heptaplasiesoptron, or, The First-Floor Lodger, 69 Hampton Court, 124, 233 Heraclitus, 32 Hardy, Thomas, 76 Herald to the Trades’ Advocate, 41, 42, 111, 132 Hargrave Hibbert, Miss as Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, 72 as Rosina in The Barber of Seville, 73 Hargrave, Wilton, and J. Fisher Hibbert, Samuel, 251 songs, Odd Fellows, 97 Hield, Mrs Harlequin and Hot Codlins, or, The Little Old Masonic Address at King’s Lynn Theatre, 88 Woman and the Demon of the Metal highwaymen, 209 Mine, 146 Hillebrand, Harold Newcomb, 1, 2

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Hillington Hunt, Leigh, 182 manager, Lewes, 92 Huntingdon, 246 Hoare, Prince Hyde Parker, Admiral, the sixth Baronet, 94 Lock and Key, 86 Hythe, 222 Sighs, or, The Daughter, 85 Hythe Theatre, 97 Hogarth, William, 18 Industry and Idleness, 7, 18, 67 ‘illegitimate’ theatres, 1 Strolling Players Rehearsing in a Barn, 44 Importation Act, 98 Holcroft, Thomas, 20 Corn Laws, 195 ATaleofMystery, 109 Inchbald, Elizabeth 46, 103, 104 Road to Ruin, 109 AChildofNature, 40, 231 Holl, Henry I’ll Tell You What, 183, 184, 185, 186 Grace Huntley, or, The Felon’s Child., 115 Such Things Are, 180, 183, 187, 191, 222 Holman, Joseph George Industrial Revolution, 2, 3, 49, 90, 102, 114, 136, Abroad and at Home, 32 147, 156, 158 Hone, William, 28, 113, 182, 183, 205 Insurrection Act, 1822, 176 Hooley, Ann Ipswich, 1, 19, 72 manager circuit troupe and Woolwich Irish Agrarian Rebellion, 1821–24, 175 Theatre, 47 Irish linen, 116, 130 Hooson, William The Irishman’s Fortune, or the Adventures of The Miners Dictionary,dwarfsasminers, Paddy O’Rafferty, 229 146 Irish Rebellion 1798, 175 Hopkins, Matthew Irish Rebellion 1821–24, 176 the witch-finder, 81 iron puddlers, 100 Horn, Charles E., 154 Isabey, Jean-Baptiste Horsfall, William painting, The Congress of Vienna, 121 Huddersfield mill owner, 33, 162 Houwald, Ernst Christoph von Jacobinism, 2 Der Leuchtturm (The Light-Tower), 8.Nov. Jacquerie, insurrection 1358, 168 1820 Berlin, Konigliches¨ Theater, 221 Jarman, Fanny Howard, John as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 228 The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, as Ophelia in Hamlet, 228 184, 186, 187 as Portia in Merchant of Venice, 228 Huddersfield, 33 title role in The Robber’s Bride, 228 Huddersfield Theatre, 162 Jerrold, Douglas William 79, 80, 81, 196 Hughes, J. H., 92 Ambrose Gwinett; or, a Sea Side Story, 180, 198 as Raton’s son Eric in The Minister and the Bampfyde Moore Carew, or, The Gypsey of the Mercer, 123 Glen, 181 as Sir Gilbert Thorncliffe in The Climbing Boy, Black-Eyed Susan, or, All in the Downs, 55, 78, 200 81, 82, 92, 171, 220 manager, Weymouth theatre, 92, 94, 123 Dolly and the Rat, 183, 198 Hughes, J. H., Mrs The Factory Girl, 7, 13, 82, 112, 113, 114, 115, 125, as Christine in The Minister and the Mercer, 126, 163, 199, 252 123 The Housekeeper, or, the White Rose, 38, 114, 115 as Rachel in The Jewess, 246 London Characters, 68 Masonic Address, 94 Martha Willis, the Servant Maid, or, Service in Hugo, Victor London, 114, 115 The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 62 More Frightened than Hurt, 81 Huguenot, 116, 117, 130 Mutiny at the Nore, or, The Fate of Richard Hulton, William Parker, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 101, 102, 225 High Sheriff Lancashire, 160 Mutiny at the Nore, renamed Richard Parker, Hume, David or, The Mutiny at the Nore, 81 The History of England, 249 Nell Gwynne, 124 Hunt, Henry, 108 The Press-Gang, or, Archibald of the Wreck, 82, Hunt, John, 182 171

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The Rent Day, 14, 55, 65, 79, 81, 82, 94, 101, daughter of Henry Kemble, 92 180, 192, 193, 194, 195, 197 Masonic Address, 92 The Witch-Finder, 81, 82 Kemble, Stephen, 11, 39, 45, 92 Jersey, 65, 97 Coal Trade, or Adventures in a Coal Pit, 139 Jewish Naturalization Act, 95 manager, Durham Circuit, 139 repealed 1754, 243 manager, Newcastle, 139 Johnson, Samuel Kenney, James Complete Vindication, 26 Sweethearts and Wives, 54 Jonas, John 53 Kerfoot, Thomas as coiner in Suil Dhuv, 227 executed for attack on mill, 160 as Sanballat in Timour the Tartar, 227 Kerr, John Jonas, Maria The Wandering Boys of Castle Olival, 51 Huncamunca in Tom Thumb, 38 Therese, or the Orphan of Geneva, 113 Jones, John Kilkenny Theatre Attempts in Verse, 201 Masonic stage interlude, 88 Journal of the House of Lords, 4 King as Captain Arlington in The Mutiny at the Kean, Edmund, 1, 26 Nore, 78 as Octavian in The Mountineers, 26 King, James, and Daniel Dunn as Paris, monologue from The Roman Actor, 26 managers, Coburg, 211 as Shylock in Merchant of Venice, 44, 228, 243 King’s Lynn, 88, 215 as Tom Tug in The Waterman, 26 Kings Norton, 70 title role in Richard III, 44, 62 Kingston, Edward King, 1st Earl of, 85 Keeley, Robert Kipling, Rudyard as Bobby Ridruthin The Cornish Miners, 143 A Smuggler’s Song, 210 as Fritz in Presumption, or, the Fate of Knaresborough, 98, 148 Frankenstein, 227 Knights of Sherwood Forest, alias Robin Hood as Sawney Macﬁle in The Robber’s Bride, 227 Club, 100 Kelly, Fanny 46, 191, 192, 193 Knockers in the Dark, 145, 146 as Amelia in The Woodman’s Hut, 235 Knowles, James Sheridan as Lisette inThe Sergeant’s Wife, 197 The Beggar’s Daughter of Bethnal Green, 199 as St Ursula in Sister of Charity, 191, 192, 193, The Hunchback, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66 197 title role in The Hunchback, 66 Dramatic Recollections, 46 Love’s Chase, 66 manager Strand Theatre, 46 Virginius, 24 Kelly, Michael William Tell, 222 as Floreski in Lodoiska, 238 Kotzebue, August von, 35 title role in The Gipsy Prince, 175 Armuth und Edelsinn, 86 Kemble, Charles Kyrle, John as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, 228 the Man of Ross, 188 The Point of Honour, 71 title role in Hamlet, 98 La Fontaine, Jean de Kemble, Henry Stephen, 46, 92 Le Singe et le Chat, 118 as Estevan in The Broken Sword, 92 labour movement, 1, 15, 16, 78, 82, 101 as Lord Townley in The Provoked Husband, 154 labour reform, 11, 17, 39, 73 as William in Black-Eyed Susan, 92 labouring-class audience, 2, 3, 7, 9, 11, 16, 19, 50, manager, Scarborough, 92 73, 78, 92, 136, 143, 152, 222, 227, 254 manager, Shefﬁeld, 92 labouring-class communities, 1 Kemble, John Philip, 24, 35, 92 labouring-class drama, 1, 2 as Paris, monologue from The Roman Actor, 26 Lace Maker’s Holiday, or, Love on Ladders, 13, 131, Lodoiska, 230, 238, 251 156 title role in Richard III, 62 lace makers, 12, 116, 132 Kemble, Miss Ladies Museum, 197 as Sophia in Rendezvous, or, Fright upon Fright, Lambert 92 as Doctor Bortolo inThe Barber of Seville, 72

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Lancashire, 105, 123 Liverpool, Pantheon Theatre, 145 Lancashire weavers’ riots, 1826, 190 Liverpool, Theatre Royal, 135, 145 Lancaster, 45, 127, 162, 218 Londonderry, 81 Lancaster Castle, 161 Lords and Commons,comedy,121 Lancaster, Edward Richardson Loughborough, 131, 162 The Two Fishermen of Lynn, or, The Last of the Louis Philippe I, 118 Burnings, 215 Loveless, James Larpent, John Tolpuddle Martyrs, 83 Examiner of Plays, 1778–1824, 34 Loveless, George Last Labourers’ Revolt, 1830, 159 Tolpuddle Martyrs, 83 Laugharne, 95 Lovett, William Lawler, Dennis lectures in Rotunda, Surrey Institution, 167 Industry and Idleness,fromHogarth,7, 67 National Union of the Working Classes, 167 lead miners, 140, 141, 142 Radical Reform Association, 167 lead mines, 81 Luckcock, James, 58 Lee, Nathaniel Ludd, King, 13, 61, 158, 160, 162, 166, 175, The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the 179 Great, 37 Luddite uprisings, 13, 33, 163, 231 Leeds, 1, 41, 98, 112, 153, 232, 239 Luddites, 33, 63, 125, 131, 160, 162, 166, 232 Leeds Mercury, 13, 110 Lyceum, 20, 28, 38, 55, 142, 153, 176, 180 Lemon, Mark Lydd, 123 The P.L., or 30 Strand, 67 Lydgate, 106 Lewes, 248 Lyme Regis, 65, 92, 123 Lewis, Matthew Gregory Lymington, 152 Adelmorn, the Outlaw, 222 Lynn, 97, 200, 233 The Castle Spectre, 24 Lyons, 84, 118, 196 The Monk, 240 Raymond and Agnes, 240 M’Cready, Sarah Timour the Tartar, 108, 227, 231 as St Ursula in Sister of Charity, 193 Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, 176 manager, Bristol, 46 Lewis, William Thomas, 35 M’Cready, William, 39, 46 Licensing Act, 3, 4, 18, 25, 27, 28, 33, 34, 47, 57, as Tony Lumpkin, 57 78, 84, 212, 217, 254 manager, Birmingham Theatre Royal, 57 Lightowller, Thomas, coiner, 226 manager, Manchester, 154, 190 Lillo, George manager, Newcastle, 154 The London Merchant, or The History of George manager, Sheffield, 154 Barnwell, 6, 16, 32, 70, 71, 91, 172, 180 Tony Lumpkin’s Ramble through Birmingham, echoes Masonic ritual, 90 57, 67 Lincoln, 100 Macclesfield steel manufactory, 153 friendly societies, 87 Lincoln Conservative and Guardian Society, MacFarren, George 100 Edward, the Black Prince, 249 Lincoln Cricket Club, 100 Guido Fawkes, or, The Powder Plot of 1605, 250, Lincoln Harmonic Society, 100 251 linen weavers, 116 Guy Fawkes, or, The Gunpowder Treason, 15, Lingard, Mrs, of Barnsley 222, 230, 248, 249, 250 defiance of Stamp Act, 111 Machiavelli, Niccolo` The Lion, 11, 17, 73, 167, 201 Novella di Belfagor, 137, 138 Liston, John, 38 Macready, William Charles, 24, 46, 57, 193 literacy, 10, 17, 18 as Damon in Damon and Pythias, 178 The Literary Gazette, 113 Maddick, William Littleport, 60 owner, Whitchurch Silk Mill, 131 Liver Theatre, Liverpool, 226 Maddox, Frederick Liverpool, 1, 10, 17, 19, 26, 31, 40, 41, 85, 104, 110, Frederick the Great, or, The King and the 136, 144, 167, 171, 220, 226, 233, 244 Deserter, 124

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Malleson, Miles, and Harry Brooks Mechanics Institute, 19, 224 Six Men of Dorset, 83 Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount, 83 Manchester, 1, 3, 6, 10, 17, 19, 26, 38, 58, 73, 77, Melmoth the Wanderer, or, Walberg, the Victim, 85, 89, 95, 97, 98, 101, 106, 108, 109, 124, 50 127, 190, 239, 243, 251 melodrama, 3, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 19, 27, 38, 67, 78, The Manchester Comet, or, A Rap at the Radicals, 79, 83, 84, 93, 109, 111, 112, 113, 126, 128, 107 137, 139, 140, 142, 147, 148, 150, 155, 157, Manchester Female Reform Group, 107 158, 168, 169, 171, 172, 192, 193, 198, 203, Manchester Iris, 108, 109 208, 209, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 219, 220, Manchester Jewish Philanthropic Society, 243 224, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231, 235, 236, Manchester, William Montagu, 5th Duke of, 63 240, 246, 250, 251, 252, 253 Mander, Raymond, 72, 73 Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Lord Manderson, A. Viscount, 213 as Frederic in The Floating Beacon, 223, 229 Merthyr, 60 as Penpuddle in The Robber’s Wife, 229 Middlesex, 105 manager, Somerset Company, 47, 65, 91, 92, Middleton, Digby Willoughby, 7th Baron, 222, 229 62 manager, Taunton Theatre, 222 Mildenhall, Thomas manager, Theatre Royal Brighton, 222 as Tom Tit in The Man of Ross, 188 Manderson, Mrs The Man of Ross, 180, 188, 191 title role in The Robber’s Wife, 229 military riots, 2 Manly, Thomas H. Wilson mills, 2, 13, 33, 37, 110, 132, 231, 232, 235 manager, Halifax Theatre, 51, 52, 250 Milner, Henry M., 157, 177, 230 manager, Nottingham theatre and circuit, 51, The Bandit of the Blind Mine, or, The 187, 190, 222 Derbyshire Assassins, 140, 141 Mann, Alice, of Leeds The City of the Plague! and the Great Fire of defiance of Stamp Act, 111 London, 15, 247 Mansong, Three-fingered Jack, 158 Grim Will, the Collier of Croydon, or, The Maria Theresa Death of the Red King, 138 Queen regnant of the Habsburg dominions, Masaniello, 138 191 Preventive Service, or, the Romance of the Coast, Marlborough, 70 14, 211, 212 Marriott, A. J. The Ticket Porter, or, The Fate of Walsingham, brass and iron works, 67 138 Marx, Karl Milton, John, 19 labouring peasantry as fourth estate, 48 mines, 13, 135, 137, 139, 140, 142, 144, 145, 147 Masaniello, 158 Mines and Collieries Act, 1842, 135 Mash, Sir Thomas Mines of Poland, or, The Castle of Minski, 147 Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain’s office, Mines Report, 1838, 135 120 Minor Theatre, Manchester, 108 Masonic symbols Mirror of Fate, or, The Gnome of the Gold Mines, playbills, 89, 90, 91, 92, 223 146 Masons, Lynn, 200 Mitford, Mary, 46 Masons, Weymouth, 200 Moira, Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Massinger, Philip Earl of, 175 The Roman Actor, 25, 26 Moliere,` Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Mathews, Charles James Tartuffe, 23 as Falkensteid in The Minister and the Mercer, Moncrieff, William Thomas 28, 29 122 Eugene Aram, 101 Matlock, 95 Giovanni in the Country, or, The Rake Matsell, Philip Husband, 28 executed for murder of Robert Twyford, 57 The Jewess, 240, 243, 244, 245, 246, 251, 253 Maturin, Charles Robert The MP, or All at Coventry, 91 Bertram, 33 Paul Pry on Horseback, or, A Peep at the Melmoth the Wanderer, 50 Election, 68

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Moncrieff, William Thomas (cont.) Newbury and Speenhamland, 54 Pigeons and Crows, or a Journey to Margate, 97 Newcastle, 11, 39, 45, 60, 139, 140, 154 Reform, 102, 103, 104, 105 Newcastle. Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of, Montford, actor 61 recites ballad, ‘The Steam Arm’, 135 Newey, Katherine, 112, 124, 199 Montford, Mr and Mrs Newgate Calendar, 113, 229 troupe of Liverpool players, 135 Newgate melodrama, 81 Moody, Jane, 8, 67, 68, 169, 174 Nicoll, Allardyce, 228, 253 Moore, Edward Night Poaching Act, 1828, 216 The Gamester, 112 Nisbett, Louisa Moore, Thomas, 75 manager, Fitzroy, 205 The Gipsy Prince, 84, 176 nitrous oxide, or laughing gas Memoirs of Captain Rock, 175, 176, 177 free doses at Stockport Theatre, 37 MP, or, The Blue-Stocking, 176 Nore, mutiny, 3, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 170 Mop Day, 70 Norman, Henry MoretoninMarsh,70 Jolly Cotton Weavers and Loyal Ashton Morning Chronicle, 35 Volunteers, 132 Morning Herald, 35 The Norman Fiend; or, The Repentant Criminal, Morning Post, 35 139 Morton, Thomas Norwich, 1, 72, 240 The Invincibles, or, Les femmes soldats, 53, 54, Nottingham, 1, 11, 15, 47, 50, 60, 61, 102, 106, 55 169, 181, 187, 190, 214, 219, 222, 239, 250 A Roland for an Oliver, 40, 41 Nottingham Circuit, 51 Secrets Worth Knowing, or, a Short Life and Nottingham Review, 107, 160 Merry One, 88, 89 Nottingham Theatre The Slave, 199 Mysteries of Druidism, 98 Speed the Plough, 100 Town and Country, or, Trade Must Prosper, 59 O.P. Riots, Covent Garden, 1809, 5, 159 Mottram in Longdendale, 86 O’Connell, Daniel, 31, 205 Mount Edgcumbe and Valletort, Lord O’Connell, Henry as Alexander the Great, 37 son of Daniel O’Connell, 205 title role in Tom Thumb, 37 Odd Fellows, 12, 15, 68, 84, 86, 88, 90, 96, 97, Munden, Joseph 98, 100, 101, 107, 131, 224, 250 as Undermine in Secrets Worth Knowing, 89 Odell, Thomas Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, 200 Deputy Examiner of Plays, 212 Murphy, Arthur, 20 The Smugglers, 212 The Grecian Daughter, 112 O’Ferrall, Fergus, 176 theatre as fourth estate, 48 O’Keeffe, John Way to Keep Him, 20 The Castle of Andalusia, 89 Murphy, Catherine Highland Reel., 40 coiner, burned at the stake, 226 The Poor Soldier, 51 Murphy, Hugh Tony Lumpkin in Town, 57 coiner, 226 Wild Oats, 100 Murray, Charles, 46 Old Poor Law, 1601, 193 mutiny at Spithead, 79, 80 Olympic, 139, 180, 181, 183, 198, 199 O’Neill, Eliza, 46 Nantz, Frederic Coleman On the Licensing System, 4, 5 Dennis, or, the Gibbet Law of Halifax, 60 Orange Lodges Napoleonic wars, 9, 15, 39, 97, 121, 144, 181, 193 Loyal Orange Institution, a Protestant naturalism, 192 fraternal organization, 83 nautical melodrama, 78, 82, 93 Oriental Herald, 4, 5 Nelson, Horatio, 1st Viscount Nelson, 57, 94 Osbaldiston, David Webster Nevins, Jess, 135 as Poynet Arden in The Charcoal Burner, 149 New Poor Law, 1834, 111, 182 Osborne New Strand, 67 manager, Tiverton, 92

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title role in John Bull, or, an Englishman’s Peel, Robert 187 Fireside, 91 home secretary, 167 Oswestry, 145 The Peer and the Ploughman, or, The Frolics of Otway, Thomas Fortune, 100 Venice Preserved, 112 Penitentiary Act, 1779, 187 Owen, Robert 3 Penley, Emma 53, 54 reform movement, Owenism, 132 as Mariette in Thérèse, the Orphan of Geneva, 55 as Mrs Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, 53 Paine, Thomas, 34, 35, 75, 182 as Sophie in The Invincibles, 54 Rights of Man, 34, 76, 77, 80 as Widow Racket in Belle’s Stratagem, 54 Palmer, William Penley, Rosina 53, 54 manager, Yeovil, Crewkerne, Lyme Regis, as Letitia Hardy in Belle’s Stratagem, 54 Honiton, and Sherbourne theatres, 65, as Mrs Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, 53 92 as Rachel in The Jewess, 246 Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, as Sophia Dudley in The Happiest Day of my 121 Life, 55 Pampadour, Sir Evelyn, 155 as Victoire in The Invincibles, 54 Pantheon Theatre, Liverpool, 226 as wife of the coiner in Suil Dhuv, 227 pantomime, 3, 27, 71, 86, 129, 145, 146, 169, 228, as Zorilda in Timour the Tartar, 227 230, 254 title role in Black-eyed Susan, 55 Park Theatre New York, 33 title role in Thérèse, the Orphan of Geneva, 55 Parker, Richard Penley, Sampson, 52, 53 leader of mutiny at the Nore, 77, 78, 79, 81, Penley, Sampson, and John Jonas 102 managers, Canterbury Circuit, including Lew Pavilion in Whitechapel-Road, 81 and Hastings, 53 Payne, John Howard managers, Peckham Theatre, 53 Charles the Second, or, The Merry Monarch, Penley, Sampson, Jr 52, 53 68 manager, Windsor, 52, 55, 70 Payne, John Howard (attributed) Penson, James The Solitary of Mount Savage, or Fate of Charles as Dr Ollapod The Poor Gentleman, 91 the Bold, 247 gratitude to Union Lodge, Salisbury, 91 Peacock, Thomas Love Peter Proteus, or, How to gain Five Thousand Crotchet Castle, 167, 168 Pounds Peake, Richard Brinsley, 157 factory farce, 42 The Bottle Imp, 144 Peterloo Massacre, 3, 17, 57, 61, 77, 78, 159, 182 The Climbing Boy, or, The Little Sweep, 94, Philanthropist, 50 199, 208 Piccinni, Louis Alexandre revised as The New Member for the Borough, Le Mont Sauvage, overture and music, 247 or, The Climbing Boy, 200 Pic-Nic Society, 35 The Cornish Miners, music by George H. pirates, 209 Rodwell, 142, 143, 144, 146 Pitt, George Dibdin retitled Black Githian, 145 The Poacher’s Wife, or, Pride and Poverty, 219 revised as The Fatal Shaft, 145 The Weaver’s Wife, or, The First Crime, 219 The Noyades, 144 Pitt, William, 2, 87, 220 The Poachers, 219 grants exemption for Freemasonry as secret Presumption, or, The Fate of Frankenstein, 20, society, 87 21, 22, 143, 171, 227 Pixer´ ecourt,´ ReneGuilbertde´ The Steel Pavilion, or, The Charcoal Burners of Le chien de Montargis, ou, La forêt de Bondy, the Hartz, 153 27 Pearse, William Le Mont Sauvage, ou, Le solitaire, 247, 251 hanged for plundering a shipwreck, 220 Le pélerin blanc, 51 Peasants’ Revolt Place, Francis, 19, 20 Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, 1381, 168 Plain Silk Hose Hands, 17, 222 peat cutters, 90 Planche,´ James Robinson 194 Peckham, 8, 53, 227 Better Late than Never, 68

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Planche,´ James Robinson (cont.) Power, Tyrone, 1914–1958 Caractacus, 99 in The Mark of Zorro, Blood and Sand, The Charles the Second, 91 Black Swan, Prince of Foxes, The Black Charles XII, 100 Rose,andCaptain from Castile, 197 The Brigand, 32, 153, 171 press-gang, 9, 198 The Jewess, 246 Preston, 60, 106, 186, 190, 217, 222, 239 The Solitary of Mount Savage, or Fate of Charles presumptive evidence, 183, 198 the Bold, 247, 248 Preventive Service, 14, 210, 211, 212, 215 The Vampire, 143, 225 Priestley, Joseph Plato An Appeal to the Public, 56 Cratylus, 32 Priestley Riots plays endorsing local merchants and Birmingham, 14–17 July 1791, 56, 61 shopkeepers, 53, 57, 67, 68, 69, 70, 75 Prince Charles Stuart, or the Rebellion in Plot, Robert Forty-Five, 90 Natural History of Staffordshire, 214 Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent, 175 Plunket, Henry Grattan Princess Theatre, 146 The Minerali, 144 Proclamation Society, 5 Plymouth, 40, 174, 175 prostitution, 4, 7, 53, 93, 110, 181, 182 Plymouth Dock, 239 Protection Societies, 101 poachers, 14, 200, 208, 216, 217, 219, 229 Public Advertiser, 186 Poachers and Petticoats, 219 public assembly poaching, 209, 215, 219, 220 laws against, 2 Pocock, Isaac public intoxication, 53 Rob Roy, 38, 91, 158, 222 Punch, or The London Charivari, 205 The Maid and the Magpie, 113, 183, 231 The Miller and his Men, 14, 126, 165, 227, 230, Queen Caroline 232, 233, 234, 235, 240, 250, 251, 253 adultery trial, 28 The Robber’s Bride, or, The Coiner’s Cave, 226, Queen’s Theatre, 10, 205, 215 227, 228, 229 Queen’s Theatre, Manchester, 10 Polidori, John Quick, John The Vampire, 225 as Nicolas in Secrets Worth Knowing, 89 Poole, John Paul Pry, 38, 68 radicalism, 2 Poole’s Cavern, 142 Radzinowicz, Sir Leon, 216 Poole, Miss C. Rae, Alexander as Marcellina in The Barber of Seville, 73 as Ferdinand Count Conenberg in The Poor House, Atherstone, 128 Woodman’s Hut, 235 poor houses, 14; see workhouses Raimbach, Abraham, engraver, 191 Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, 3, 182, 193, 205, Raymond, F. 207 manager, New Shakespearean Theatre, Poor Law Commission, 207 Stratford, 171 Poor Laws, 14, 74, 105, 125, 165, 183 Raymond, Richard Poor Laws 1833, 38 as Wolfender in The Woodman’s Hut, 235 Poor Man’s Guardian, 101, 111, 130 Raymond, Richard Malone, and W. J. Pope, Alexander, Irish actor, 58 Hammond as young Greville in Secrets Worth Knowing, 89 managers, Liver Theatre, Liverpool, 226 Pope, Alexander, poet, 188 Raymond, Richard John Porthleven, 220 The Wreck of the Leander Frigate, or, The Fatal Portsmouth, 46, 77, 223 Sandbank, 93 power looms, 51, 116, 117, 118, 124, 125, 127, 128, Rayner, Lionel Benjamin 132, 160, 166, 190, 196 as Giles in The Miller’s Maid, 198 Power, Tyrone, 1795–1841, 197 title role in Ambrose Gwinett, 198 as Michael in The Irishman’s Home, 197 title role in Luke the Labourer, 198 as Paddy O’Rafferty in The Irishman’s Fortune, Rebecca, and her daughters, 159 229 The Red Barn, or, the Mysterious Murder, 218 as Victor Frankenstein in Presumption, 21 The Red Indian, or, Selkirk and his Dog, 27

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The Red Indian, or, The Shipwrecked Mariner Rodwell, George H. and his Faithful Dogs, 27 music for The Cornish Miners, 142 The Red Savage, or, Sidney and his Dog, 27 Romford, Philanthropic Theatre, 115 Rede, William Leman Roscoe, William Sixteen String Jack, 211 leader of Liverpool Jacobins, 110 Wealth and Want, or, The Barnburners, 170 Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Wealth and Want, or, The Village Politicians, Essay on Translated Verse, 103 170 Rose, Jonathan, 19 Reeve, George William Rossini, Gioachino, libretto based on Pierre Grey, the Collier,musicalscore,252 Beaumarchais Reform Act Riots, 102 The Barber of Seville, 72 Bristol, 1831, 159 Ross-on-Wye, 188 Reform Act, 1832, 3, 38, 50, 61, 62, 64, 65, 82, rotten boroughs, 61, 102, 200 100, 102, 104, 105, 111, 169, 200 Rowbotham, H. H. reform melodrama, 65, 82, 181 as Will Blore in Bandit of the Blind Mine, 141 reform movement, 12, 19, 82, 128, 167, 174, 185, Rowe, Nicholas 195, 199 Jane Shore, 250 regalia, Druidic on Shakespeare poaching deer, 215 on stage, 98 Royal Amphitheatre, 14, 15, 171, 180, 213 regalia, Masonic Royal Circus, 27 on stage, 88, 89, 91, 95 Royal City of London, 14, 180, 196 regalia, Odd Fellows Royal Pavilion, 42, 78, 93, 102, 114, 129, 145, 180, on stage, 97 203, 218 Regency, 44, 53, 68, 128, 205 Royal Pavilion, Birmingham, 97 Relief of the Poor Act, 1782, 182 Royal Scots Greys, Lancashire, 162 Rennie, John, Captain, the Invincible, 94 Royalty, 27, 32, 44, 45, 67, 93, 147, 214, 230, The Republican, 17 247 Revenue ofﬁcers, 211 Royton, 73 Reynolds, Frederic Russell, John Russell, 1st Earl, 83 The Dramatist, or Stop him who Can, 86 Russell, Samuel Thomas Richard the Third, or, the Battle of Bosworth as Jerry Sneak in The Mayor of Garratt, 32 Field, 169 Ruthin, 239 Richardson, John Ruthyn, Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de manager, itinerante theatre company, 44 Ruthyn, 239 The Rick Burner, 169 Rye, 33, 115, 222 rick burnings, 13, 14, 158, 166, 169, 209, 231 Ryley, William Samuel Ridgway, Master manager, Liverpool, 110 title role in Tom Thumb, 38 Riego y Nunez,˜ Rafael del, 158 sacking of Nottingham Castle, 1831, 159 riots, 2, 15, 16, 48, 50, 53, 73, 101, 110, 111, 115, 159, Sadler, Michael Thomas 166 The Factory Girl’s Last Day, 112 riots, 1816, 60, 61 The Sadler Report, 112 riots, 1831, 60, 61 Sadler’s Wells, 7, 27, 62, 81, 93, 123, 140, 146, 148, Ripponden, 95 168, 183, 195, 203, 219, 221, 226, 240 The Rival Indians, or, The Sailor and his Dogs, St Albans, 97, 99, 250 27 St James Theatre, 32, 130 Roast Every Wretch!, 41, 42 St John, John factory farce, 42 Mary Queen of Scots, 43 Robertson, Mrs T. St Peter’s Fields, 17, 106 manager, Wisbech, 244 St Ursula, 191, 193 Robin Hood, 100, 158, 215 Salisbury, 22, 23, 24, 26, 65, 66, 91, 115, 198, 229, Rochdale, 37, 73, 127, 222 240, 246 Rochdale Observer, 37 Salisbury, Emily, Marchioness of Rochdale Theatre as Huncamunca in Tom Thumb, 37 slitting women’s clothing, 51 Samu Ramee Rock, Captain, 175 juggler, 27

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Sanders, John Shakespeare, William, 19, 28, 35, 72, 73, 75, 180, as Peter Coci in Catherine Audley, 189 215 manager, Ledbury Theatre, 189 3HenryVI, 75 Sanders, Mrs As You Like It, 40 as Mabel in Catherine Audley, 189 Coriolanus, 24 Sans Pareil Theatre, 33, 215 Cymbeline, 99 Saunder, Abraham Hamlet, 24, 26, 85, 98, 228 manager, iteinerant theatre company, 44 Henry V, 102 Saunder’s Amphitheatre, Birmingham, 90 Henry VI, Part 1, 240, 241, 243 Saunton, 91 Julius Caesar, 24, 64, 73 Saxon, Nicholas, 108, 109 King Henry IV, with the humours of Sir John Scarborough, 43, 46, 54, 92, 198, 214 Falstaff, adapted by Thomas Betterton, Schiller, Friedrich, 35 95 Don Carlos, 138 King Lear, IV.vi, 22 Kabale und Liebe, 84 Macbeth, 112 Scott, Jane Merchant of Venice, 44, 228 manager, Sans Pareil, 46 The Merry Wives of Windsor, 53, 57, 67, 96 The Fire Goblin and the Three Charcoal Othello, 24, 171, 194 Burners, 153 Richard III, 44, 62, 74 The Old Oak Chest, or, The Smuggler’s Sons Romeo and Juliet, 40, 66, 74, 228 and the Robber’s Daughter, 215 The Taming of the Shrew, 48 The Old Oak Chest, revived as The Smuggler’s The Winter’s Tale, 48 Son and the Exciseman’s Daughter, 215 Shalders, William Scott, John manager, Salisbury Theatre, 23, 25, 229 manager, Pantheon Theatre, Liverpool, 145, Sharpe, Richard 68 146 manager, theatre at Rose and Crown, Watford, Scott, Sir Walter 68, 96 ‘The Fortunes of Martin Waldeck’ in The A Peep into the Public Houses, 68 Antiquary, 153 The Signs of Lichfield, or A Peep into the Public Demonology and Witchcraft, 81 Houses, 68 Guy Mannering, 55 title role in Charles the Second, or, The Merry Ivanhoe, 215 Monarch, 68 Scragges, William Sheffield, 11, 33, 45, 50, 54, 71, 92, 95, 142, 148, manager, Norfolk and Suffolk Company of 154, 155, 156, 172, 200 Comedians, 72 Sheil, Richard Lalor, 35, 178 Scribe, Eugene` Sheldon Bertrand et Raton, ou, l’art de conspirer, Magpie Mine and Maypitt Mine, 142 117 Shelley, Mary La Juive, musical score, Fromental Halevy,´ Frankenstein, 20, 135, 143 243 Shemeld, F. Seditious Meetings Act, 1795, 12, 58, 76 The Captive Queen, or, Sheffield in the Olden Seditious Practices, reports 1801, 1812, 161 Time, 156 Selby, Charles Sheppard, Jack, 158 The King’s Gardener, or, Nipped in the Bud, 135 Shepton Mallet, 91 Select Committee on Dramatic Literature, 1832, Sherborne, 65, 92 34 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 20, 24, 35 Serle, Thomas Pizarro, 32 as Richard Parker in The Mutiny at the Noir, School for Scandal, 20, 135, 205, 239 78 Shifnall, 31 Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, 240, 242, 243, The Shipwreck, or, The Yarmouth Tragedy, 94 251 Shrewsbury, 38, 86, 144, 145, 181, 240, 248, 250 The Foresters, 98 Siber, J. C. Seymour, Miss The Female Jacobin-Club, 110 as Victoire in The Invincibles, 54 Siddons (Mrs Henry), Harriet, nee´ Murray Shadwell, Thomas, 4, 5 manager Edinburgh Theatre Royal, 46

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title role in Giovanni in the Country, or, The Southam, 11, 70, 71 Rake Husband, 28 Southampton, 32, 89, 200 Siddons, Henry, 46 Southeil, Ursula Siddons, Sarah, 35, 46, 92 known as as Mother Shipton, 148 Belvidera in Venice Preserved, 112 Southerne, Thomas as Euphrasia in The Grecian Daughter, 112 Isabella, or, The Fatal Marriage, 112 as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, 112 Southey, Robert 106 as Mrs Haller in The Stranger, 112 Lives and Works of our Uneducated Poets, 201 as Mrs Beverly in The Gamester, 112 Mary, the Maid of the Inn, 214 playing the provinces, 44 The Inchcape Rock, 224, 225 title role in Isabella, or, The Fatal Marriage, Southwell, 238 112 Spa Fields Riots, 2 December 1816, 61 Sidlow Spanish Inquisition, 84, 175 provocateur at Westhoughton, 162 Spitalfield Riots, 1769, 130, 159 Sidmouth, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount, Spitalfields, 67, 84, 116, 119, 130, 190, 196 182 Spithead, mutiny, 77, 80, 83 silk weavers, 12, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 130, 196, Stamford Mercury, 101 199 Stamp Act, 4, 12, 100, 110, 186 Simpson, Brother (Druid) Standfield, John as Chief Bard in Caractacus, 99 Tolpuddle Martyrs, 8, 83 Simpson, Brother (Mason) Standfield, Thomas as Barnwell in The London Apprentice, 90 Tolpuddle Martyrs, 83 as Clown in The Witches, or Birth of Stanton, H. Harlequin, 90 manager, Wrexham, 229 as Robber Chief in The Robbers of Switzerland, Staton, James Thomas 90 The Brunnin’ o’ Westhowtun Factory, 13, 127, Six Acts, 182, 183, 186 160, 161, 163 Slattern, Thomas The Steam Arm, ballad, 136 title role in Suil Dhuv, 227 steam engines, 13, 124, 134, 144 Slave of Wealth, or, The Gnome of the Gold steam power, 2, 12, 85, 116, 134, 136 Mines, 146 steam-driven looms, 63, 124, 125, 127, 164, 209, Sloman, Mrs, nee´ Whitaker 252 as the Queen Dowager in The Minister and the steam-driven machines, 3, 42 Mercer, 122 steam-powered mills, 91 as Rachel in The Jewess, 246 Stendahl (Marie-Henri Beyle) Smith, Albert Racine et Shakespeare, 194 A Lesson for Gentlemen, 144 Stirling, Edward Smith, James Guido Fawkes, or, The Prophetess of Ordsall executed for attack on mill, 160 Cave, 251 Smith, O. Mary of Manchester, or, The Spirit of the Loom, as Githian in The Cornish Miners, 143 132 smugglers, 14, 91, 93, 191, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, manager, Adelphi, 251 213, 214, 215, 220, 223, 229 manager, Covent Garden, 251 silk trade, 123 manager, Drury Lane, 251 Smugglers’ Families Maintenance Bill, 88 manager, English Opera House, 251 The Smugglers; or, The Innkeeper’s Daughter, 214 manager, Lyceum, 251 Soane, George manager, Olympic, 251 The Innkeeper’s Daughter, 100, 214, 222, 230 manager, Surrey, 251 Society for the Suppression of Vice, 5, 21 Stockport, 37, 105, 124, 218 Sons of Vulcan, 153 Storey, John choral performances, 100 Culture and Power in Cultural Studies, 9 society of iron puddlers, 100 Strachan, John, 67, 68 Sophocles Stratford, New Shakespearean Theatre, 171 Antigone, 24 Stratford-on-Avon, 55, 70, 216, 246 South Sea Bubble, 1720, 216 Struensee, Johann Friedrich, Count, 119

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Sue, Eugene theatre riots, 6, 11, 56, 159, 254 The Wandering Jew, 148 against singing of ‘God Save the King’, 11, 49, Surrey, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 27, 32, 38, 67, 69, 71, 50, 58, 73, 159 78, 81, 82, 84, 92, 98, 115, 123, 124, 125, Theatrical John Bull, 22 146, 147, 148, 149, 155, 159, 163, 168, 169, Theatrical Looker-on, 26 170, 171, 181, 195, 220, 224, 247, 252 Theatrical Observer, 171 Surrey Institution, 167 Theatrical Representations Act, 1788, 4, 5, 11, 39, Sussex, Prince Augustus Frederick, 1st Duke of, 47, 49, 224 85 Thelwall, John, 39, 76 The Sussex Smuggler and the Coast Blockade, John Gilpin’s Ghost, 39 213 Thomas Standﬁeld Swaffam, Theatre of Arts, 65 Tolpuddle Martyrs, 83 Swansea, 1, 24, 115, 171, 193, 228, 229 Thompson and Co. Swift, Jonathan factory farce, 42 Gulliver’s Travels, 181, 209 Thompson, Benjamin Swindells, Julia, 34 The Stranger, 112 Swindells, Robert, 186 Thompson, E. P. Swing, Captain, 179 The Making of the English Working Class, 8, 11, pseudo-autobiographies, 167 28, 29, 50, 78, 102, 161, 182, 186, 209 Swing riots, 13, 158, 166, 167, 170 Thornton, Abraham suspected murderer, 128 tableau vivant, 154, 193, 194, 196 threshing machines, 166, 168 Talfourd, Thomas Noon The Times, 226 Ion, 24 tin miners, 16, 104 Talleyrand-Perigord,´ Charles Maurice de, 13, 119, Tiverton, 13, 38, 92, 95, 97, 131, 132, 156 120, 121, 122 Tiverton factory, 13 Taylor, G. F., 163 Tobin, John The Factory Strike, 8, 163 Honey Moon, 20 Taylor, George Tolkien, J. R. R. as Raton in The Minister and the Mercer, 123 The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings,dwarfs Taylor, Hannah Henrietta as miners, 146 manager, Nottingham Theatre and circuit, Tolpuddle Martyrs, 1834, 82, 83, 87, 159, 170, 171 47 Tooke, John Horne, 76 Taylor, John, 201 Tottenham Street Theatre, 35, 42, 81 as Brother Taylor on Freemasonry, 86 Totty, Thomas, Rear Admiral, the Invincible, 94 as Brother Taylor with a Comic Dissertation trade unions on Odd Fellows, 86 laws against, 1, 2, 3, 8, 12, 15, 19, 76, 82, 86, 87, as Hans William in Sighs or, The Daughter, 95, 96, 105, 118, 132, 134, 163 86 tradesmen guilds, 249 Taylor, Robert Tradesmen of Salisbury, 65 Diegesis, 39 Tradesmen of St Albans, 65 Lion, 39, 41 Tranent, Massacre, 77, 78 Swing, or, Who are the incendiaries?, 167 transportation to Van Dieman’s Land, 83 Taylor, William Perkins, 47 Treasonable Practices Act, 1795, 76 Tennyson, Alfred Treaty of Fontainebleau, 1762, 130 Maud, 232 Tree, Maria Terr y, Daniel as Viola in Twelfth Night, 227 Guy Mannering, 55 Tree, Ellen Tewkesbur y, 70 as Christine inThe Minister and the Mercer, 122 textile industries, 12, 105 as Olivia in Twelfth Night, 227 textile mills, 117, 160 title role in The Robber’s Bride, 227 theatre Trotter boxes, pit, and gallery, 6, 15, 48, 50, 65, 72, 100, manager, Worthing, 239 154 Tunbridge Wells, 46, 65, 124, 198, 225, 246 boxes, pit, and gallery, separate entrances, 57 TwmJohnCatty,158

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Tw o Ac t s , 1795, 76 Warrington, 186 Tw y f o rd , Ro b e r t textile industry, 85 watchman murdered by Philip Matsell, 57 Warrington Theatre Masonic interlude, 85 Unlawful Oaths Act, 1797, 83, 87, 170 vandalism, 51 Unlawful Societies Act, 1799, 87 Warwick, 70, 128, 241, 242 Watford, 65, 68, 96 Vagrancy Act, 1824, 181, 186 Watson, Miss Vanbrugh, John, and Colley Cibber as Ella in Bandit of the Blind Mine, 142 The Provoked Husband, 154, 189 as Mary Parker in The Mutiny at the Noir, Vandenhoff, John M., 24, 26 78 as Adrastus in Ion, 24 Waylett, Harriet as Brutus in Julius Caesar, 24 manager, The Strand, 46 as Cassius in Julius Caesar, 24 weavers, 12, 13, 16, 77, 84, 110, 116, 117, 123, 124, as Creon in Antigone, 24 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 132, 134, 158, as Osmond in TheCastleSpectre, 24 160, 161, 162, 163, 189 as Paris, monologue from The Roman Actor, 25 Weavers’ Minimum Wage Bill title role in Cato, 24 rejected by House of Commons, 127 title role in Coriolanus, 24 weaving mills, 51 title role in Hamlet, 24 Webb, Charles, 180 title role in Othello, 24 The Vagrant, his Wife and Family, 14, 60, 84, title role in The Hunchback, 65 132, 193, 196, 197 title role in Virginius, 24 Webster, Benjamin Vauxhall Gardens, 56, 69 as John the shop boy in The Minister and the Vellum, Susan, 39 Mercer, 122 Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth The Golden Farmer, or, The Last Crime, 232, as Eglantine in The Nymph of the Grotto, 41 233 as Victoire in The Invincibles, 54 Welch, Daniel, 47 Victoria (formerly Coburg), 8, 146, 163, 240, actor, manager, Freemason, 86 243 managed Ashton-under-Lyne, 47 Victoria, Queen, 55, 135 A Peep into a Lodge, or Mason disclose, 86 Voullaire, Andrew Leonard Weller, George Distraining for Rent, 195 manager, Worthing Company, 222 Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 102, Wakeﬁeld, 97 167 Waldie, John, 45, 144, 154 Wells Theatre, 97 Waldron, Francis Godolphin Welshpool, 204 The Miller’s Maid, music by John Davy, 202, Wesley, Charles, 206 204 West Riding, 110 Walker, John, 132, 252 Westhoughton, 124, 127, 162 The Factory Lad, 8, 13, 15, 123, 124, 125, 126, Westhoughton Factory, 162 127, 159, 163, 164, 165 Westhoughton Mill, 160, 232 Napoleon, or, The Emperor and the Soldier, Weymouth, 24, 92, 93, 94, 105, 123, 153, 171, 200, 123 223, 242, 246 Nell Gwynne, the Orange Girl, 124 When the Bell Tolls; or The Banditti of the The Wild Boy of Bohemia, 123 Cavern, 139 Wallace, Miriam, and A. A. Markley Whitby, 91, 139 Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 20 Whiteboy movement, 1761–65, 175 Walpole, Robert, 25, 33, 34, 212 Whiteboys, the Buachaill´ıBana´ , 176, 178, 179 Walsall, 32, 60, 102, 105, 222 as agrarian trade union, 177 Wandering Boys, or, The Castle of Olival Who was the Hand?, 108 adapted from RenePix´ er´ ecourt,´ Le P`elerin Wilberforce, William, 5 blanc, ou les Enfants du hameau, 68 Wilhelm Tell, 158 Warde, James Wilkie style manager, Birmingham Theatre Royal, 57 mode of acting, 191, 193

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Wilkie, Sir David Michael, 174 Distraining for Rent, 191, 193, 195 Peter Bell, 174 The Reading of the Will, 195 sonnet to St Catherine of Ledbury, 189 The Rent Day, 191 The Discharged Soldier, 181 Wilkins the Weaver, or, Bethnal Green in the ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’, 181 Olden Time, 129, 130 The Prelude, 181 Wilkins, W. workhouses, 3, 14, 64, 74, 131, 164, 166, 174, 176, carpenter, 239 182, 183, 186, 188, 189, 199, 201, 202, 203, Wilkinson, Tate, 5 204, 205, 206, 207 Will Watch the Bold Smuggler, 213 The Working Man’s Friend, 101 William II, 138 Worrall, David William IV, 55, 65, 102, 167 social assemblage theory, 16 Williams W. H. Worthing, 238 manager, Hythe Theatre, 97 Woulds, John Winchester, 246 manager, Swansea, 228 Windsor, 11, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 67, 81, 124, 225, wreckers, 14, 91, 93, 208, 210, 219, 220, 223, 225, 246 229 The Windsor and Eton Express, 53 The Wreckers of the Craig Foot, or, The Ghost Windsor Theatre, 53 with the Golden Casket, 225 military presence, 52 Wrench, Benjamin, 26 prostitution, 52 as Dr Sal Ammon in The Cornish Miners, 143 royal presence, 52 Wrexham, 81, 105, 124, 144, 145, 229, 246 Wisbech, 224, 244 Wroe, Thomas The Witches, or Birth of Harlequin, 90 factory manager, Westhoughton, 127 Wiveliscombe, 65, 91, 222, 229 Wokingham, 124 Yarmouth, 66, 94 Wolcot, John Yates, Frederick Henry, 26 wrote under pseudonym of Peter Pindar, 145 Yates, Richard, 56 women factory workers, 112; see also female Yearsley, Ann, 202 radical reformers and reform societies Earl Godwin, An Historical Play, 8 Woodbridge, 200 Yellow Dwarf, or, Harlequin King of the Golden Woodhouse, James, 202 Mines, 146 Woolcombers, friendly society, 87 York Female Friendly Society, founded 1788, 105 Wooler Thomas Jonathan, ed., Young, Charles Mayne The Black Dwarf, 109 as Ambroise in The Fate of Calas, 139 Wooler as Danton in The Reign of Terror, 138 Masonic Lodge as theatre, 90 as Dr Wellburn in The Ticket Porter, or, The woollen weavers, 116 Fate of Walsingham, 138 Worcester, 58, 96, 106, 124, 145, 153, 171, 214, 222, title role in Grim Will, the Collier of Croydon, 250 138 Wordsworth, John, Captain, 93, 223 Young, Francis Brett, and Edward Stirling Wordsworth, William, 93, 223 Captain Swing, a romantic play of 1830, 174 ‘Beggars’, 181 Younge, Richard Benjamin the Waggoner, 174 as Strawberry in The Climbing Boy, 200