List of abbreviations -- Introductory note -- Directory of principal singers, actors and actresses -- A V iew of the English Stage -- Preface -- Mr Kean’s Shylock -- Mr Kean’s Richard -- Mr Kean’s Hamlet -- Mr Kean’s Othello -- Mr Kean’s Iago -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Artaxerxes -- The Beggar’s Opera -- Richard Coeur de Lion -- Didone Abandonnata -- Miss O ’Neill’s Juliet -- Mr Kean’s Richard -- Mr Kean’s Macbeth -- Mr Kean’s Romeo -- Mr Kean’s Iago -- Mr Kean’s Iago (concluded) -- Mr Kean’s Richard II -- The Unknown Guest -- Love in Limbo -- Mr Kean’s Zanga -- Mr Kean’s Abel Drugger -- Mr Bannister’s Farewell -- Comus -- Mr Kean’s Leon -- The Tempest -- My Wife! What Wife? -- Mr Meggett’s Octavian -- Mr Harley’s Fidget -- My Aunt -- The Iron Chest -- Living in London -- The King’s Proxy -- The Maid and the Magpie -- The Hypocrite -- Mr Edwards’s Richard III -- Miss Hughes’s Mandane -- Lovers’ Vows -- Dowton’s Shylock -- The School for Scandal -- Mrs Alsop’s Rosalind -- The WiU -- John du Bart -- The Beggar’s Opera -- Miss O ’Neill’s Elwina -- Where to Find a Friend -- Cymon -- Miss O ’Neill’s Belvidera -- What’s a Man of Fashion? -- Miss O ’Neill’s Monimia -- Mr Kean’s Duke Aranza -- The Merchant of Bruges -- Smiles and Tears -- George Barnwell -- The Busy Body -- Mr Kean’s Othello -- A New Way to Pay Old Debts -- The Midsummer Night’s Dream -- A New Way to Pay Old Debts -- Love for Love -- The Anglade Family -- Measure for Measure -- Mr Kean’s Sir Giles Overreach -- The Recruiting Officer -- The Fair Penitent -- The Duke of Milan -- Miss O ’Neill’s Lady Teazle -- Guy Mannering -- Mr Kean -- Mr Kean’s Shylock -- The Oratorios -- Richard III -- Mr Bibby’s Sir Pertinax -- Romeo and Juliet -- Mr Kemble’s Sir Giles Overreach -- Bertram -- Adelaide, or the Emigrants -- Every Man in his Humour -- Mrs Siddons -- New English Opera-House -- The Jealous Wife -- The Man of the World -- The Poor Gentleman -- Miss Merry’s Mandane -- Exit By Mistake -- A Man in Mourning for Himself -- The Beggar’s Opera -- The Italian Opera -- Old Customs -- My Landlady’s Night-Gown -- Love in a Village -- Castle of Andalusia -- Two Words -- The Surrender of Calais -- The Wonder -- The Distressed Mother -- Lovers’ Vows -- Miss Boyle’s Rosalind -- Mr Macready’s Mentevole -- Mr Macready’s Othello -- Mr Stephen Kemble’s Falstaff -- Theatrical Debuts -- Mr Kemble’s Cato -- The Iron Chest -- Mr Kemble’s King John -- Coriolanus -- The Man of the World -- Jane Shore -- The Humourous Lieutenant -- Two New Ballets -- Mr Booth’s Duke of Gloster -- Figaro -- Mr Booth’s Iago -- Mr Booth’s Bichard -- Frightened to Death -- Double Gallant -- Two New Melo-drames -- Don Juan -- The Conquest of Taranto -- The Touch-Stone -- The Libertine -- Barbarossa -- Mrs Siddons’s Lady Macbeth -- Mr Maywood’s Shylock -- Mr Kemble’s Retirement -- Notes -- Books referred to in the notes to volume 3.