James Armstrong, Playwright

The Victorian actor Samuel Phelps was described by his biographer Richard Lee as "the last typical classic actor of the English theatre...

The poet Leigh Hunt was not known for his business acumen. In fact, Charles Dickens famously satirized Hunt's impecuniousness with the c...

Three books, all with the same title, Romanticism , deal with the same topic. Indeed, all employ the same key word in discussing the art and...

The eminent tragedian of the Victorian era, William Charles Macready , was often paired with an equally skilled leading lady, Helen Faucit ....

Charles Kean never had the ability to enthrall an audience as an actor--like his father, Edmund Kean , certainly could. Still, he had a prof...

The Victorian actor William Charles Macready often spoke of "reviving the drama." To him, this meant one thing: the return of vers...

On October 29, 1842, the London newspaper The Examiner carried a review by John Forster of William Charles Macready's latest triumph, a...