These 1840 memoirs provide a fascinating if one-sided account of Alfred Bunn's career as librettist and theatrical manager.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Volume 1: Preface 1. Inutility of biography 2. Indifference of the public 3. Performers and their salaries, past and present 4. A London manager as he is, and as he ought to be 5. The value of experience exemplified 6. A good address very desirable 7. Mems. of a manager during a continental trip 8. Ambassadors 9. Jephtha's vow 10. A visit to Germany, and its theatres 11. Dissolution 12. 'Repeal of the union' carried. Volume 2: 1. Reduction of prices 2. Overclouding of the horizon 3. Illness and recovery 4. The manager's last sight of the actress 5. Disadvantages of a clean over a dirty house 6. The examiner of plays unfit for his situation 7. Seven shillings and four shillings versus cleanliness and dirt 8. Patent delights! 9. New reading of a passage in Macbeth 10. Doubts respecting Killigrew's patent solved. Volume 3: 1. Mr C. Kean's appearance in London 2. A splendid dinner, and a better dessert 3. The end of a season 4. 'War, war, no peace' 5. Posthumous opera by Sheridan 6. Various opinions of various people 7. The steward's reckoning 8. Pains and penalties give way to rhyme and reason.
Volume 1: Preface 1. Inutility of biography 2. Indifference of the public 3. Performers and their salaries, past and present 4. A London manager as he is, and as he ought to be 5. The value of experience exemplified 6. A good address very desirable 7. Mems. of a manager during a continental trip 8. Ambassadors 9. Jephtha's vow 10. A visit to Germany, and its theatres 11. Dissolution 12. 'Repeal of the union' carried. Volume 2: 1. Reduction of prices 2. Overclouding of the horizon 3. Illness and recovery 4. The manager's last sight of the actress 5. Disadvantages of a clean over a dirty house 6. The examiner of plays unfit for his situation 7. Seven shillings and four shillings versus cleanliness and dirt 8. Patent delights! 9. New reading of a passage in Macbeth 10. Doubts respecting Killigrew's patent solved. Volume 3: 1. Mr C. Kean's appearance in London 2. A splendid dinner, and a better dessert 3. The end of a season 4. 'War, war, no peace' 5. Posthumous opera by Sheridan 6. Various opinions of various people 7. The steward's reckoning 8. Pains and penalties give way to rhyme and reason.
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