227-230.
Old Master, An, 234.
Olympic, The, 107.
Oonagh, The, 90.
Operetta, The, 93, 194.
Origin of Official Censorship, 83.
Orleans, Duc d’, in Richelieu, 69.
Our American Cousin, Sothern in, 112.
Our Boys, 134, 178.
Ours, 117;
Marie Wilton in, 121.
“Owls’ Roost,” 115.
Oxenford, John, 82;
on Irving, 164.
Pair of Spectacles, A, 217-220.
Palace of Truth, The, 146.
Pantomime, the, 76, 98, 194.
Parker, Louis N., 301.
Parliamentary Commission, 64;
and Bulwer Lytton, 65.
Passion in the drama, 252.
Patience, 153.
Pauline in The Lady of Lyons, 66.
Peep o’ Day, 90.
Peer Gynt, Ibsen’s, 278, 279, 287.
Penley, Mr., 284.
Pettitt, 195.
Phelps, 76, 157.
Pilgrim, The White, 177.
Pillars of Society, The, Ibsen’s, 279, 280.
Pinafore, 154.
Pinero, Arthur W., letter to Mr. Bancroft, 136, 212.
—— personal, 254;
an actor, 255;
The Squire, Lords and Commons, 256;
The Magistrate, Dandy Dick, The Hobby Horse, 257;
The Times, The Cabinet Minister, 258;
The Profligate, 259-264;
Lady Bountiful, 264;
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 264-274, 276;
The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, 276;
and Ibsen, 295.
Pink Dominoes, 178.
Pippo, Marie Wilton as, 102, 103, 121.
Pirates of Penzance, 154.
Plautus, 88.
Playgoers’ Club, Mr. Tree at, 284.
Plays, Examiner of, 84.
Plessy, Madame Arnould, 78.
“Pocket Ibsen,” A, 282.
Polhill, Captain, 62.
Prices under the Bancrofts, 135.
Prince of Wales’s Theatre, 105 (see Queen’s), 113.
—— Robertson’s plays at, 114.
—— last visit to, 137.
Princess Ida, 153.
Princess’s, The, 195.
Princess’s translator, The, 78.
Prisoner of War, Jerrold’s, 59.
“Privileged” theatres, 40, 62-64, 156.
Profligate, The, 259-264.
Promise of May, The, 182.
Provincial touring, 46-49.
Ptarmigant, Lord and Lady, 116, 127.
Puckler-Muskau, Price, 63.
Puritans and the Stage, 236.
—— and the Censorship, 310.
Pygmalion and Galatea, 147;
the critics on, 148-152.
Queen Mary, Tennyson’s, 178, 185, 187, 190.
Queen’s Theatre, 104 (see Prince of Wales’s).
The Promise of May, 182.
Raval, 79.
Ray, Katharine, and Ibsen, 279.
Realism, H. A. Jones on, 252.
—— English horror of, 289;
Ibsen’s, 289.
Rebellious Susan, The Case of, 236, 250.
Rehan, Ada, 174.
Réjane, 197.
Rent Day, The, Jerrold’s, 56.
Reynolds, 50.
Rhythm of English dramatic verse, 44.
Richelieu, 64, 65-70.
Richelieu and Cromwell, 68.
Richelieu, Lytton’s, 69.
Robertson, Forbes, 306.
Robertson, Madge, as Galatea, 147;
in The Falcon, 181.
Robertson, T. W., early life, 106;
quarrel with Farren, 107;
at journalism, 109;
in Bohemia, 109-111;
writes a play for Sothern, 112;
Society and Marie Wilton, 112, 113;
success, 117;
a wonderful reader, 118;
his insight into Marie Wilton’s genius, 121;
cause of the success of his comedies, 122;
only half a realist, 123;
characteristics exemplified from School, 124;
method of character-drawing, 127;
his characters, 127-132;
marriage, 132;
death, 133;
and Byron, 134;
and Gilbert, 138.
Robins, Miss, and Ibsen, 281.
Robson, Mr., 79, 306.
Roche, Madame, 158.
Romanticism in France, 45.
Roses, The Two, 133.
Rosmersholm, 292.
Rorke, Kate, 306.
Royalty, The, 95.
Ryder, 79, 158.
Sadler’s Wells, 76, 157.
Sagas, The, 285.
Saintine, X. B., and Richelieu, 68.
Saints and Sinners, 235-240, 244.
Salaries of actors, 135.
Sarcey, Francisque, 201.
Sardou and the Bancrofts, 134, 209, 210, 215, 252, 312.
Savage Club, The, 109, 115.
Scandinavian Society, British, and Ibsen, 279.
School of Common Sense in France, 51.
School, 117;
Marie Wilton in, 121;
scene from, 125.
Scott, Clement, and The Oonagh, 90;
and Tom Hood’s parties, 110;
on Robertson’s reading, 118;
on Irving, 164, 197, 198, 199, 200.
Scribe, 81, 215, 216, 224, 252, 312.
Sedaine’s drame bourgeois, 51.
Shakespeare, 40, 42, 44, 45, 48, 50, 63, 73, 76;
and French actors, 78;
in Irving’s hand, 173;
resuscitation, 175;
and melodrama, 196.
“Shakespeare made Easy,” 156.
Shaugraun, 91.
Shaw, G. B., and Ibsen, 283.
Shelley, 64.
Sheridan, 50, 81, 88.
Shylock, Kean as, 43.
Siddons, Mrs., 40.
Silver King, The, 235.
Sims, G. R., 195, 301.
Smith, Albert, 109.
Smithson, Miss, 45.
Snowball, The, 214.
Society, Robertson’s, 112;
first performance, 114;
success, 117.
“Song of the Gentleman,” by Brough, 111.
“Songs of the Governing Classes,” by Brough, 111.
Sothern and Robertson, 112, 118.
—— and Irving, 162.
Sowing the Wind, 227.
Spanker, Lady Gay, 75.
Spectators, three classes, 305.
Spencer, Herbert, and Ibsen, 292.
Squire of Dames, 302.
Squire, The, 256.
St. James’s Theatre, 78, 181, 196.
Standard, The, 194.
Strand, The, 96, 99, 101;
Dickens at, 102, 104, 112, 121.
Stirling, Mrs., in Caste, 135.
Sullivan and Gilbert, 153.
Surface, Joseph, Macready as, 41.
Surrey, The, 194.
Swanborough, Mrs., 96, 112.
Sweethearts, Gilbert’s, 140.
Swinburne’s dramas, 192.
Talma on the actor’s emotions, 170.
Tanqueray, The Second Mrs., 264-274, 276, 289.
Taylor, Tom, 87.
—— Our American Cousin, 112.
Taylor, Tom, on Marie Wilton and Robertson, 118.
Tempter, The, 248.
Tennyson and Macready, 74;
and Gilbert’s Princess Ida, 153.
—— as a dramatist, 178;
and the critics, 178;
The Falcon, 180;
The Promise of May, 182;
The Cup, 183.
—— Queen Mary, Harold, Becket, 185;
his sense of history, 186.
Terence, 88.
Terry, Miss Ellen, 167, 174, 178, 189.
Theatre-goers of 1850, 77.
Theatres, number of, 86.
Theatre, commercial decadence of the, 62.
Theatres, “Privileged,” 40, 62-64, 156.
Theatre managers, 77.
Thomas, Henry, 159.
Thomas, Moy, 198.
Ticket of Leave Man, origin of, 207.
Times, The, Pinero’s, 258.
Toby and Crumbs in The Rent Day, 57.
Toole, John, first appearance, 100.
Tour, on, 46-49.
Translations of foreign plays, law as to, 208.
Travelling companies, 46-49.
Treaty of Berne, 208.
Tree, Mr., and The Tempter, 248.
—— and Ibsen, 284.
—— in John-a-Dreams, 302;
his staying, 307.
Trial by Jury, 153.
Triumph of the Philistines, 249.
Tussaud’s, Madame, Kean and Macready at, 41.
Van Ambrugh, 76.
Vaudeville, The, 133.
Victoria, 39.
Victoria, The, 194.
Virginia and Icilius, 51.
Virginius, Knowles’s, 50-55.
Virginius’s character, 52.
Walkley, A. B., and Ibsen,