ABSTRACT
Public Taste—The Patent Theatres—No Luxury—Late Hours—Drury Lane —Bunn—Macready—Covent Garden—The Two Keans—Haymarket Theatre—Buckstone—Lord Dundreary—The Olympic—Madame Vestris —Charles Mathews—Frederick Robson—Wigan—The Lyceum—The Adelphi—Wright and Bedford—The St. James's—Rachel—The Princess's —Charles Kean and his Shakespeare Revival—Burlesques—Pantomimes —Some Players—The Royal Opera—Great Singers—Covent Garden as an Opera House—The Ballet—Taglioni, Elssler and Cerito—The Pas de Quatre.
