Actors 1
Composers 1
Costume 1
Performing arts 8
Theater 10
Actors 1203
Artists 4
Assassins 1
Atkins, Eliza Warrell, fl. 1787-1808? 2
Authors 27
Baker, Alexina Fisher, 1822-1887 1
Baker, Matilda, b. 1801 4
Bannister, Charles, 1738-1804 2
Bannister, Elizabeth, 1757-1849 1
Bannister, John, 1760-1836 16
Barrymore, W. (William), d. 1845 1
Bartley, Sarah, 1783-1850 4
Bass, Charles, 1803-1863 1
Begnis, Giuseppe, 1793-1849 2
Bellamy, Thomas Ludford, 1771-1843 2
Bellchambers, Miss 1
Bennett, William Mineard, 1778-1858 1
Berlioz, Harriet Smithson, 1800-1854 5
Bernard, John, 1756-1828 2
Betty, William Hen. West (William Henry West), b. 1791 29
Billington, Elizabeth, 1768-1818 14
Bindon, Emily Coote, ca. 1779-1832 1
Bishop, Anna, 1810-1884 1
Bishop, Miss 1
Blackface entertainers 2
Blanchard, William, 1769-1835 2
Bland, George, d. 1807 1
Bland, Mrs. (Maria Theresa Catherine), 1770-1838 4
Blissett, Francis, 1742?-1824 1
Blust, Olive 1
Bolton, Mary, 1790-1830 3
Bond, Thomas, d. 1635 1
Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893 6
Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 1
Booth, Junius Brutus, 1796-1852 8
Booth, Sarah, 1793-1867 4
Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890 1
Boyce, Miss, fl. 1807 1
Braham, John, 1774-1856 9
Breeches parts 12
Brereton, William, 1751-1787 3
Brooke, Gustavus Vaughan, 1818-1866 2
Brooks, Mrs., fl. 1786-1794 1
Brougham, John, 1810-1880 2
Brown, J., Mrs., d. 1823 1
Brunton, Anne, 1768-1808 8
Brunton, John, 1775-1848 1
Brunton, Louisa, ca. 1785-1860 5
Buchinger, Matthew, d. 1739 1
Buckstone, John Baldwin, 1802-1879 5
Buller, Mr. 1
Bullock, William, ca. 1667-1742 1
Bunn, Margaret Agnes, 1799-1883 12
Burbage, Richard, 1567?-1619 2
Burke, Joseph, 1818-1902 3
Burrell, Miss, b. 1795 1
Burton, William Evans, 1802-1860 4
Byrne, Eleanor, fl. 1817 2
Camp, Vincent, 1779-1839 2
Campbell, Ellen, fl. 1810 1
Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844 1
Campion, Maria Ann, 1775 or 77-1803 1
Carew, Margaret Felicite Anne, b. 1799 7
Carr, Louisa Maria, fl. 1821-1823 1
Cartwright, William, 1611-1643 1
Cartwright, William, d. 1687 1
Catalani, Angelica, 1780-1849 1
Catley, Ann, 1745-1789 1
Caulfield, Thomas, 1766-1815 1
Celeste, Madame (Celine), 1814-1882 2
Centlivre, Susannah, 1667?-1723 4
Chabert, Julien Xavier, 1791-1859 1
Chanfrau, Francis S., 1824-1884 1
Charke, Charlotte, 1713-1760 2
Charles, Elizabeth Walker, d. 1849 1
Chatterley, Louisa, 1797-1866 1
Chatterley, William Simmonds, 1787-1821 1
Cherry, Andrew, 1762-1812 3
Chester, Eliza, b. 1799 6
Child actors 35
Chivers, G. M. S. 1
Choreographers 1
Cibber, Susannah Maria Arne, 1714-1766 1
Circus performers 1
Clifford, Maria, 1794?-1850 1
Clowns 6
Coates, Emma Anne, fl. ca. 1830 1
Coates, Robert, 1772-1848 1
Coghlan, Rose, 1851?-1932 1
Collins, Thomas, 1775-1806 1
Composers 46
Compton, Henry, 1805-1877 1
Connor, Charles, d. 1826 1
Conquest, Benjamin Oliver, 1805-1872 1
Cooke, George Frederick, 1756-1812 20
Cooke, Thomas Potter, 1786-1864 8
Cooke, Thomas Simpson, 1782-1848 2
Cooper, John, 1790-1870 8
Cooper, Thomas Abthorpe, 1776-1849 5
Costume 725
Couldock, Charles Walter, 1815-1898 2
Cowley, Mrs. (Hannah), 1743-1809 1
Crouch, Anna Maria, 1763-1805 8
Cubitt, Marie Caroline, b. 1800 3
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811 1
Curiosities and Wonders 1
Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876 3
Dancers 11
Daniels, Alicia, d. 1826 1
Darley, Ellen, d. 1849 3
Davenport, Edward Loomis, 1815-1877 1
Davidge, George B., 1793-1842 4
Davidge, William Pleater, 1814-1888 1
Davison, Maria Rebecca, 1783-1858 11
Dean, Julia, 1830-1868 1
Denning, Thomas, 1790-1821 1
Dibdin, Ann, 1775-1828 1
Dibdin, Anne 1
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814 9
Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1833 1
Dibdin, Thomas John, 1771-1841 3
Dickons, Maria, ca. 1774-1833 5
Dignum, Charles, 1765-1827 4
Dimond, William Wyatt, d. 1812 2
Diplomats 1
Doran, John, 1807-1878 1
Dormer, Mr., fl. ca. 1805 1
Dowton, William, 1764-1851 11
Dramatists 119
Drew, John, 1827-1862 2
Drew, Louisa, 1820-1897 1
Dubois, Jean Baptiste, 1762-1817 1
Ducrow, Andrew, 1793-1842 1
Dudley, Charlotte 1
Dudley, H. Bate (Henry Bate), Sir, 1745-1824 1
Duff, Mary Ann, 1795-1857 1
Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927 1
Dyott, John, d. 1876 1
Eddy, Edward, 1822-1875 1
Editors 2
Edmiston, Miss, b. 1801 3
Edwin, Elizabeth Rebecca, ca. 1771-1854 7
Edwin, John, 1749-1790 2
Edwin, John, 1769?-1805 3
Edwin, William, fl. 1836 1
Egerton, Daniel, 1772-1835 1
Egerton, Sarah, 1782-1847 3
Egville, James Harvey, ca. 1770-1836 1
Elliston, Robert William, 1774-1831 15
Elocutionists 1
Elphinstone, Emma Marian Maria, 1806 or 7- 1888 1
Emery, John, 1777-1822 6
Emery, Samuel Anderson, 1817-1881 1
Entertainers 20
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee, 1728-1810 1
Esten, Harriet Pye, ca. 1765-1865 2
Farley, Charles, 1771-1859 4
Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829 3
Farren, Mary Ann, 1817 or 18-1894 1
Farren, William, 1786-1861 10
Faucit, Harriet Elizabeth, 1789-1857 3
Fawcett, John, 1768 or 9-1837 13
Fearon, James, 1745 or 6-1789 1
Featherstone, Miss 1
Fechter, Charles Albert, 1824-1879 1
Female impersonators 1
Fennell, James, 1766-1816 1
Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760 2
Field, Joseph M., 1810-1856 1
Field, Nathan, 1587-1620? 1
Fisher, Charles, 1816-1891 1
Fisher, Clara, 1811-1898 2
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837 2
Fitzwilliam, Edward, 1788-1852 5
Fitzwilliam, Fanny Elizabeth, 1801-1854 4
Fleming, William Maybury, 1817-1866 1
Foote, Maria, 1797?-1867 8
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777 5
Forde, Catherine Maria, b. 1805 1
Forrest, Edwin, 1806-1872 12
Francis, Mrs., d. 1834 1
Francis, William, 1756 or 7-1826 1
Fullam, Michael, d. 1825 1
Garrick, David, 1717-1779 1
Gattie, Henry, 1774-1844 2
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 1
Gibbs, Maria, b. 1770 7
Gibbs, P., 1804-1854? 5
Glover, Julia, 1779-1850 11
Glover, Phillis Frances Agnes, 1807-1831 3
Goodall, Charlotte, 1765-1830 1
Green, Jane, d. 1791 1
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837 3
Hadaway, T. H. (Thomas H.), 1801-1892 1
Hall, Harry, 1804-1858 1
Hall, Jacob 1
Hallande, Miss, d. 1832 1
Hamblin, Thomas Sowerby, 1800-1853 1
Hammersley, Miss, fl. 1818-1824 1
Harley, John Pritt, 1786 or 90-1858 7
Harlowe, Sarah, 1765-1852 1
Hartley, Elizabeth, 1750?-1824 3
Hayes, Catherine, 1825-1861 1
Henderson, John, 1747-1785 2
Hill, George Handel, 1809-1849 1
Hill, Harriet, fl. ca. 1810-1819 1
Historians 1
Hodgkinson, John, ca. 1767-1805 1
Holland, Charles, 1733-1764 1
Holman, J. G. (Joseph George), 1764-1817 3
Home, John, 1722-1808 1
Honner, R., Mrs., b. 1812 1
Horn, Charles Edward, 1786-1849 3
Horn, Matilda, b. 1790 2
Hughes, Elizabeth, fl. 1831 1
Hughes, John Charles, 1789-1840 1
Hull, Thomas, 1728-1808 2
Hunt, Henry B., d. 1854 1
Huntley, Francis, 1787-1831 1
Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821 5
Incledon, Charles Benjamin, 1763-1826 7
Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905 2
Isaac, John, 1791-1839 1
Jamieson, George, 1812-1868 1
Jefferson, Joseph, 1774-1832 1
Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1732-1807 1
Johnston, H. (Henry Erskine), 1777-1845 3
Johnston, Nannette, b. 1782 1
Johnstone, John Henry, 1749-1828 6
Jones, Richard, 1779-1851 8
Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816 15
Kean, Charles John, 1811?-1868 5
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833 35
Kean, Ellen, 1805-1880 6
Keeley, Mary Ann, 1806-1899 1
Keeley, Robert, 1793-1869 4
Keene, Laura, 1826-1873 2
Kelly, Frances Maria, 1790-1882 8
Kelly, Lydia, b. 1795 1
Kelly, Michael, 1762-1826 2
Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854 12
Kemble, Elizabeth, 1763?-1841 1
Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893 7
Kemble, Henry Stephen, 1789-1836 1
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823 26
Kemble, Marie Therese, 1774-1838 7
Kemble, Roger, 1721-1802 1
Kemble, Stephen, 1758-1822 1
Kemp, William, fl. 1600 1
King, Thomas, 1730-1805 1
Knight, Edward, 1774-1826 9
Knowles, James Sheridan, 1784-1862 3
Lacy, Harriette Deborah, 1807-1874 2
Lander, J. M. (Jean Margaret), 1829-1903 1
Leak, Elizabeth, b. 1777 1
Lekain, Henri Louis Cain, 1728-1778 1
Lewes, Charles Lee, 1740-1803 1
Lewis, Mrs. Henry, d. 1855 1
Lewis, William Thomas, 1749-1811 6
Lind, Jenny, 1820-1887 4
Linwood, Mary, 1755-1845 1
Liston, John, 1776-1846 11
Liston, Sarah, ca. 1780-1854 8
Litchfield, Harriett, 1777-1854 4
Logan, Eliza, 1829 or 30-1872 1
Logan, Olive, 1839-1909 1
Lovell, Maria, 1803-1877 3
Macauley, Elizabeth Wright, 1785?-1837 5
Macready, William Charles, 1793-1873 20
Magicians 3
Mallinson, Joseph, fl. 1811 1
Mardyn, Charlotte, b. 1789 5
Marriott, Alice, 1824-1900 1
Martin, Helena Faucit, 1814-1898 1
Martyr, Margaret, d. 1807 4
Mathews, Charles James, 1803-1878 4
Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835 19
Matthews, Sarah Blanche, b. 1794 5
Mattocks, Isabella, 1746-1826 6
Maturin, Charles Robert, 1780-1824 1
McCullough, John, 1832-1885 2
Meadows, Drinkwater, 1799-1869 1
Mellon, Harriot, Duchess of St. Albans, 1777?-1837 12
Melrose, Mr., b. 1799 1
Merry, Lydia Ellen, fl. 1816 2
Middleton, James, ca. 1768-1799 1
Mills, John, d. 1736 1
Minshull, John 1
Minstrels 1
Modjeska, Helena, 1840-1909 1
Montez, Lola, 1818-1861 1
Moody, John, 1727-1812 1
Morris, Clara, 1848-1925 1
Morris, Elizabeth, 1753-1826 1
Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838 1
Mossop, Henry, 1729?-1774 1
Mountain, Rosemond, ca. 1768-1841 6
Munden, Joseph Shepherd, 1758-1832 7
Murdoch, James Edward, 1811-1893 1
Murray, Charles, 1754-1821 3
Murray, Esther Jane, d. 1875 1
Musicians 13
Neilson, Adelaide, 1848-1880 1
Nelson, Annette, fl. 1828-1837 1
Nilsson, Christine, 1843-1921 1
Nisbett, Louisa, 1812?-1858 1
Noblet, Lise, fl. 1821 1
Norton, Miss, fl. 1808? 1
Novello, Clara, 1818-1908 1
O'Neill, Eliza, 1791-1872 9
Oldfield, Anne, 1683-1730 2
Orger, Mary Ann, 1788-1849 4
Osbaldiston, D. W. (David Webster), 1794-1850 1
Owens, John E. (John Edmond), 1823-1886 1
Oxberry, W. (William), 1784-1824 7
Palmer, Albert Marshman, 1838-1905 1
Palmer, John, 1742?-1798 5
Palmer, Robert, 1757-1805 5
Palmo, Ferdinand, 1783 or 4-1869 1
Pantomime 1
Parrock, Eliza, b. 1806 1
Parsons, William, 1736-1795 4
Paton, Mary Ann, 1802-1864 5
Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852 2
Pearman, William P., 1792-1837 2
Performing arts 220
Perkins, Richard, 1585?-1650 1
Phelps, Samuel, 1804-1878 2
Phillips, Henry, 1801-1876 2
Pictorial works 10
Pinkethman, William, d. 1725 1
Placide, Henry P., 1799-1870 2
Politicians 1
Ponisi, Mme (Elizabeth), 1818-1899 1
Pope, Alexander, 1763-1835 3
Pope, Elizabeth, ca. 1740-1797 1
Pope, Jane, 1742-1818 2
Pope, Susan, b. 1797 1
Povey, Mary Ann, 1804-1861 4
Powell, Mary Ann, 1761-1831 3
Power, Tyrone, 1797-1841 3
Quick, John, 1748-1831 9
Rae, Alexander, 1782-1820 7
Rainforth, Elizabeth, 1814-1877 1
Rayner, Lionel Benjamin, 1788-1855 3
Reeve, John, 1799-1838 6
Reeves, Sims, 1818-1900 2
Rehan, Ada, 1857-1916 1
Reynolds, Frederick, 1764-1841 1
Rice, Tom, 1808-1860 1
Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt, 1819-1870 2
Robertson, Agnes, 1833-1916 1
Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800 8
Rock, Edward Anthony, d. 1815 2
Rogers, James G., 1822-1863 1
Russell, James, 1789-1859 2
Russell, Samuel Thomas, ca. 1770-1845 3
Ryder, Thomas, 1735-1790 1
Salzberg, Louisa Ann, b. 1812 5
Sapio, Lewis, 1792-1851 2
Schirmer, Albert, b. 1790 1
Sefton, John, 1805-1868 1
Sefton, Marian, 1810-1895 1
Sheridan, Elizabeth Ann, 1754-1792 2
Sheridan, Esther Jane, 1776-1817 1
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 1
Sheridan, Thomas, 1719-1788 1
Sherwin, Ralph, 1799-1830 2
Siddons, Harriet, 1783-1844 3
Siddons, Henry, 1774-1815 1
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831 19
Silsbee, Joshua S., 1813 or 15-1853 1
Simmons, Samuel, ca. 1773-1819 7
Simpson, Edmund Shaw, 1784-1848 1
Sinclair, John, 1791-1857 7
Singers 221
Smith, George, 1777-1836 2
Smith, O., 1786-1855 6
Smith, Sol. (Solomon), 1801-1869 1
Smith, William, 1730-1819 1
Sowdon, Thomas, d. 1789 1
Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882 10
Stirling, Fanny, 1815-1895 3
Stoddart, James Henry, 1827-1907 1
Storace, Anna Selina, 1765-1817 2
Strickland, Robert, d. 1845 1
Suett, Richard, 1755-1805 4
Swordsmen 1
Taglioni, Marie, 1804-1884 1
Talma, Francois Joseph, 1763-1826 3
Tarlton, Richard, d. 1588 1
Taylor, Charles, 1781-1847 2
Ternan, Mrs. (Thomas), 1802-1873 1
Terry, Daniel, 1782-1829 4
Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1
Theater 1213
Theatrical managers 188
Theatrical producers and directors 2
Tightrope walking 1
Transvestites 1
Tree, Ann Maria, 1801-1862 5
Vale, Samuel, 1797-1848 3
Vandenhoff, John M., 1790-1861 2
Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856 13
Vincent, J. R., Mrs., 1818-1887 2
Vocal groups 1
Wallack, James William, 1791?-1864 8
Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888 2
Walstein, Eliza, d. 1833 2
Warde, James Prescott, 1792-1840 3
Warren, William, 1767-1832 1
Waylett, Harriet, 1798-1851 2
Webster, Benjamin, 1797-1882 4
Wells, Mary Stephens, 1762-1829 1
Wemyss, Francis Courtney, 1797-1859 1
West, Sarah, 1790-1876 5
West, William, 1796-1888 1
Weston, Lizzie, d. 1899 1
Wewitzer, Ralph, 1748-1825 1
Wilkinson, James Pimbury, b. 1787 4
Williams, Barney, 1824-1876 1
Williams, W. H. (William Henry), 1797?-1846 2
Wilson, Mary Anne, 1802-1867 5
Woffington, Margaret, d. 1760 4
Women in the performing arts 135
Women in the theater 486
Wood, John, Mrs., 1831-1915 1
Wood, William B. (William Burke), 1779-1861 1
Woodward, Henry, 1714-1777 2
Wrench, Benjamin, 1778-1843 2
Wright, Edward Richard, 1813-1859 2
Wyatt, George H., d. 1860 1
Yates, Elizabeth, 1799-1860 6
Yates, Frederick Henry, 1795-1842 2
Yates, Richard, 1706?-1796 1
Young, Charles Mayne, 1777-1856 15