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INDEX
Abernethy, John 1
Acres, Bob 1
Addison, Joseph 1n
The Adopted Child 1
Aherne, Caroline 1
Aladdin 1
Andrews, Robert ‘Little Bob’ (scene painter) 1, 2
Angelo, Henry 1, 2
L’Antiquaire 1
Arne, Thomas 1
As You Like It 1n, 2
Astley, John 1
Astley, Philip 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8, 9 competitiveness of 1
Napoleon and 1
Astley’s Amphitheatre, Whitechapel 1, 2, 3, 4
backstage booze rivers 1
feuds
and adultery 1
gossip 1, 2
mistakes 1
payday 1
rancour 1
tears 1n
Bailey, Mr and Mrs 1, 2
Bailey, Mrs 1, 2
Baker, Sarah 1, 2, 3
The Bandit of the Blind Mine 1
Bang Up; or, Harlequin Prime! 1
Banks (‘Indian combat’ participant) 1
Bannister, John 1
Barbarossa 1
Barfoot, Thomas 1, 2, 3
Barnes, James 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Barnett, George 1
Barnewell, Harriet 1, 2
Barry, J 1
Barrymore, Lord 1n
Bartholomew Fair 1, 2, 3, 4
Bastille, Paris 1, 2
Bates, Mary 1, 2
The Battle of Fockschau 1
Beaumont, John Barber 1
Beckford, William 1
Bedford, Duke of 1, 2
Bedford Coffee House 1
Beef Steak Club 1
Belcher, Jem 1
‘La Belle Espagnole’ (fandango dancer) 1, 2
The Belle’s Stratagem 1
Belushi, John 1
Belzoni, Giovanni (‘Patagonian Sampson’) 1, 2n
Bentley’s Miscellany 1
Berkeley, Colonel 1
Bermondsey Spa 1
Betty, Henry (father of the phenomenon) 1, 2
Betty, William Henry (child phenomenon) 1, 2, 3, 4
Bettymania 1, 2, 3, 4
Bickerstaff, Isaac 1
Birmingham Reporter 1, 2
Black Caesar 1
Blagden, Catherine 1
Blagden, Isabella 1
Blagden, Margaret 1
Blagden, Mary 1, 2, 3, 4
Blanchard, Edward (EL) 1, 2, 3
Blanchard, Thomas 1
Bland, Fanny 1
Blue-Beard 1, 2, 3
Boaden, James 1, 2, 3
Boaden, John 1
Bois-Maison, Monsieur 1
A Bold Stroke for a Wife 1
Bologna, Barbara 1, 2
Bologna, Harriet 1, 2, 3
Bologna, Jack 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 death of 1
Dublin with Joe and Maria 1
flourishing 1
Mackoull and 1
marriage to Harriet 1
protest hit on 1
summer benefit with Joe 1
volunteer soldier 1
Bologna, Joe 1
Bologna, Louis 1, 2, 3
Bologna, Pietro 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Booker, Zachariah 1
Bossi del Carlo, Signora 1
Boswell, James 1
Bowley 1, 2
boxing bouts at Sadler’s Wells 1
Bradbury, Harry 1, 2
Bradbury, Robert 1
madhouse incarceration 1n
Brandon, James 1, 2, 3
An Bratach; or, the Fairy Flag 1
Bristow, Charlotte 1
Bristow, Louisa 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Bristow, Mary (later Mrs Joe Grimaldi) 1 nursing and devotion of 1
Brooker, Rebecca (Joe’s mother) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 birth of Joe 1
birth of son John (Baptist) 1
burglary victim 1
Clerkenwell, move to 1
with Giuseppe in Little Russell Street 1
Islington, attachment to 1
retirement 1
third son, William, mystery of 1
Brown, John 1
Bruce, Lenny 1
Bruin the ‘Dog Star’ 1
Brummell, Beau 1, 2n, 3
Bullock, William 1
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 1
Bunn, Alfred 1, 2, 3, 4
Burgoyne, John (‘Johnny’) 1
Burke, Edmund 1
Bussart, Placido 1
Byrne, James 1, 2, 3
Byrne, Oscar 1
Byron, George Gordon, Baron of 1, 2, 3 Grimaldi and friendship with 1
Cabanel, Eliza 1
Cabanel, Rudolph 1
The Caledonian Lover’s Village Festival 1n
Camberwell 1
The Caravan 1
Carlo the Wonder Dog 1, 2
Carnevale, Pietro 1
The Castle Spectre 1, 2, 3
Castles in the Air 1, 2
Catalani, Angelica 1, 2, 3
The Cauldron 1
Centlivre, Susanna 1
Chaplin, Charlie 1
Chapman (manager of Tottenham Street theatre) 1
The Children of Thespis 1, 2
The Chinese Sorcerer 1
Chunee (Indian elephant) 1, 2n
Cinderella 1
Clarence, William, Duke of (later William IV) 1, 2, 3
Cleese, John 1
Clerkenwell Volunteers 1
Clifford, Henry 1, 2
Coal Hole Tavern 1
Cobbett, William 1
Coburg in Vauxhall
Grimaldi at 1
performing experience at 1
Coco, Concetto 1
Coleman, George 1
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1
Colnagi’s Print Shop, Cockspur Street 1
Comédie-Française 1
Commedia (Italian) 1
Constitutional Review 1
Cooke, George 1
Cooke, TP 1
Cooke, William 1, 2
Cooper, Sir Astley 1
Cooper, Tommy 1
Coriolanus, Kemble’s version 1, 2
Corry, John 1
Count Cagliostro 1
The Country Girl 1
Covent Garden 1, 2, 3, 4 ‘borne from calamity, nursed in misfortune’ 1
foundation stone laid by Prince of Wales 1
George Barnwell, ‘wretched cant’ at 1
Mother Goose, triumph at 1
record recovery of 1
ticket price controversy (and violent protests) 1, 2
tragedy at 1, 2n
Cox’s Museum 1
Crib Club 1
The Critic 1
Cross, Edward 1, 2
Cross, John Cartwright 1
Crouch, Maria 1, 2
Cruikshank, George 1, 2
Cumberland, Ernest Augustus, Duke of 1
Curtis, Sir Roger 1
Dartford 1
Dartmouth 1
Davis, William (‘Jew’) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Davison (Giuseppe’s apprentice) 1
de Castro, Jacob 1
de Cleve, Vincent (‘Polly’) 1
de Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques 1
The Death of Captain Cook 1
Deburau, Jean-Gaspard 1n
d’Egville, James (Jamie Harvey) 1, 2, 3
Delpini, Carlo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
The Deserter 1
Devonshire, Elizabeth, Duchess of 1, 2
Dibdin, Charles I M Jr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 antagonism against 1
death of 1
Dublin theatre warfare 1
economics and ‘state of declension’ 1
fame of Grimaldi, threat to influence of 1
first season at Sadler’s Wells 1
‘Hot Codlins’ 1, 2, 3
imprisoned for debt 1
indefatigable pen of 1
irked by Grimaldi’s health problems 1
management philiosophy 1
Peter Wilkins, triumph of 1
Sadler’s Wells, share in 1
Dibdin, Charles Sr 1, 2 aquatic success 1
Dibdin, Thomas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 Astley, relationship with 1
bitter and careworn 1
catastrophic accident at the Wells 1
Covent Garden, ‘new theatre,
borne from calamity, nursed in misfortune’ 1
licence for Sadler’s Wells after accident 1
not to be done without 1
partnership with Farley at Covent Garden 1, 2
prolific writing talent 1
Sadler’s Wells, share in 1
semi-retirement 1
&n
bsp; yuletide pantomime, invention of 1
Dickens, Charles 1, 2, 3
Disputes in China; or, Harlequin and the Hong Merchants 1
Doane’s Musical Directory 1
Don Juan 1
Don Juan; or, the Libertine Destroyed 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Douglas 1
Dover 1
Dowton, William 1
Dramatic Censor 1
Drury Lane Theatre 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 final triumph of Grimaldi at 1
levelled by fire 1
pantomime failure, 1806 Christmas 1
pantomines discontinued at 1
reintroduction of pantomime to 1
reopening of (1812) 1
talent assembled for Grimaldi’s farewell 1
Drury Lane Theatrical Fund 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Dublin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Dubois, Charles 1
Dubois, Jean-Baptiste 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Peter Wilkins, triumph with Grimaldi in 1
relegation to Pero, and ‘yesterdays man’ 1
Dupres, or, Nothing is Difficult in Love 1
Durenci, Monsieur 1
Egerton, Daniel 1, 2
‘Eidophusikon’ 1
Eldon, Lord Chancellor 1
Eliot, Sir Gilbert 1
Ellar, Tom 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Elliot, Catherine 1
The Enchanters; or, Harlequin Sultan 1
English Opera House 1
Epping Hunt 1
European Magazine 1
The Examiner 1
Exeter, Devon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Exeter Change, menagerie and other entertainments at 1, 2n, 3
Fairbrother, Bob 1, 2
Farley, Charles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
theatrical intelligence and skill 1 Farmer, Margaret 2
The Fates; or, Harlequin’s Holy Day 1
Fawcett, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Figaro in London 1
Filial Love, or, the Double Marriage 1
Fitzclarence, George 1
Fitzgerald (retired navy man) 1
Follett, John 1, 2, 3
Foote, Maria 1
forains (novelty performers) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ford (schoolmaster) 1
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