Book: Memoirs Of The Principal Actors In The Plays Of Shakespeare (1846) HE OF THE PRINCIPAL ACTORS IN THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEAUE. BY J. PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ., F. S. A. LONDON FEINTED FOE THE SHAKESPEAEE SOCIETY. 1846. FREDERICK SHOBERL, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, 51, KUtfERT STREET, HAYMARKET, LONDON. TO THE EAEL OF ELLESMERE THIS WORK IS, WITH PERMISSION, INSCRIBED IN TESTIMONY OF THE HIGHEST ADMIRATION, AND OF SINCERE GRATITUDE FOR MANY PAYOUES CONFERRED UPON THE AUTHOR. COUNCIL OF THE SHAKESPEAEE SOCIETY. THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUESS OF CONYNGHAM, K. P. THE EARL OF POWIS, K. G. THE EARL OF GLENGALL. THE EARL HOWE. THE EARL OF ELLESMERE. THE RT. HON. LORD BRAYBROOKE. THE RT. HON. LORD LEIGH. THOMAS AMYOT, ESQ., F. R. S., TREAS. S. A. WILLIAM AYRTON, ESQ., F. R. S., F. S. A. BAYLE BERNARD, ESQ. J. PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ., F. S. A., DIRECTOR. BOLTON CORNEY, ESQ. PETER CUNNINGHAM, ESQ., TREASURER. THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. SIR HENRY ELLIS, K. H., F. R. S., F. S. A. JOHN FORSTER, ESQ. HENRY HALLAM, ESQ., F. R. S., V. P. S. A. J. O. HALLIWELL, ESQ., F. R. S., F. S. A. THE REV. WILLIAM HARNESS. WILLIAM C. MACREADY, ESQ. THE REV. H. H. MILMAN. THE REV. JOHN MITFORD. T. J. PETTIGREW, ESQ., F. R. S. F. S. A. J, R. PLANCHE, ESQ., F. S. A. MR. SERJEANT TALFOURD, D. C. L. WILLIAM J. THOMS, ESQ., F. S. A. F. GUEST TOMLINS, ESQ., SECRETARY. THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ., F. S. A. The Council of the Shakespeare Society desire It to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Societys publications the Editors of the several works being alone responsible for the same. LIVES OF ACTORS. LIVES OF THE ORIGINAL ACTORS SHAKESPEARES PLAYS. BY J. PAYNE COLLIER PRINTED FOE THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY, AND TO BE HAD OF W.SKEFFINGTOtf, AGENT TO THE SOCIETY, 192, PICCADILLY. 1853. LONDON 11RADBURV AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITKFJUAR. S.