The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi

by McConnell Scott, Andrew

Macready (Birmingham theatre manager) 1, 2, 3

  Madame Tussaud’s ‘Cabinet of Wax’ 1

  The Maid of Genoa 1

  Malcolm, James Peller 1, 2, 3

  The Man of Genius (Lombroso, C) 1

  Le Marchand de Merde 1

  Margate 1, 2

  Marie Antoinette 1, 2, 3

  The Marquis De Carabas; or, Puss in Boots 1

  Marshall, Thomas 1

  Mars’s Holiday 1

  Marylebone Mercury 1

  ‘Master Manager’ 1

  Mather, Mrs 1

  Matthews, Tom 1, 2, 3, 4

  The Medley, or, a Masque in a Masquerade 1

  Mehemet Effendi (Ottoman Ambassador to Paris) 1

  Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (Dickens, C) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n, 13, 14, 15, 16n, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

  Ménage, Bella 1 and Ménage family 2

  Mendoza, Daniel 1, 2

  Mercerot, Madame 1

  Merlin’s Cave Pub 1

  Merton, Paul 1

  Miles, Henry Downes 1, 2, 3

  Miller, Josias 1

  Miller (‘Indian combat’ participant) 1

  Milligan, Spike 1

  Mirror of Literature 1n

  Monkey Island 1

  Montgomery (Royal Circus Clown) 1, 2

  Monthly Magazine 1

  Monthly Mirror 1, 2, 3, 4

  Moore, Thomas 1

  Moreau, aristocratic lovers of 1

  Morning Chronicle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Morning Herald 1, 2

  Morning Post 1

  Mother Goose (Charles Dibdin) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 acclaim, deafening, for 1

  Covent Garden reopening of 1

  fire at Covent Garden (and floating Mother Goose) 1

  harlequinade of 1

  late opening for 1

  ‘lucky old hag,’ revival of 1

  ninety-two performances 1

  Oddfish, the sea monster (Ménage) 1, 2

  reopening at Covent garden (and inordinate profits) 1

  revival at Haymarket 1

  ‘that damned’ - Harris 1

  triumph at Covent Garden 1

  Mudie, Miss (Peggy in The Counrty Girl) 1

  Murray, William 1

  Musical Directory 1

  Myddleton, Sir Hugh 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5

  Naval Pillars 1

  Nelson, Admiral Horatio, Lord 1, 2, 3

  New Monthly Magazine 1, 2

  Newland, Charles 1, 2

  Niagara Falls 1

  Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens, C) 1

  Norman, Richard 1, 2

  Northampton Chapel, Exmouth Street 1

  Northcote, John 1

  Northumberland, Duke of 1

  novelties, pony races and 1

  The Ocean Fiend 1

  Ode to Melancholy (Keats) 1

  Odes and Addresses to Great People 1

  Ogre and Little Thumb 1

  Old Fools, or, Love’s Stratagem 1

  Old Harlequin’s Fireside 1

  Oroonoko (Behn, A) 1

  The Orphan of Peru 1, 2

  Oscar and Malvina 1

  Oxberry, William 1

  Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n

  Pandean Minstrels 1

  Pandora’s Box 1

  Pantheon 1, 2

  pantomime Byron a huge fan of 1

  clowns retreat to circus 1

  collapse of Regency model 1

  Garrick’s contempt for 1

  good for business 1

  Harlequin a Sorcerer, epitome of the form 1

  for new generation 1

  Prince Regent and 1

  reintroduction to Drury Lane 1

  Sadler’s Wells’ specialisation in 1

  spirit of 1

  Parisot, Celine 1

  Parker, Mrs 1

  Parker, William 1

  Parsloe, EJ 1, 2

  Pasquin, Anthony 1, 2, 3

  ‘patent’ theatres (with royal approval) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 abolition of system of 1

  and minor theatres, struggle between 1, 2, 3

  Patlock, Robert 1

  Paul Clifford or, the Highwayman of 1770 1

  Paulo, Signor (son of Paulo Redigé) 1, 2, 3

  Payne, Howard 1

  Peake, Richard 1, 2

  Peake, Richard Brinsley 1, 2, 3

  Pearce, John 1

  Pearce, Vincent 1

  ‘Perfect Man of Business’ 1

  Perouse; or, the Desolate Island 1

  Perry, Anne 1, 2, 3, 4

  Perry, Henrietta Marguerite 1

  Peter Wilkins: or, Harlequin in the Flying World 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Philip and His Dog 1

  Philip Quarll 1

  Phillipson, James 1

  Phoenix Fire Company 1

  Piazza Coffee House 1, 2

  Pickle (schooner) 1

  The Pickwick Papers (Dickens, C) 1

  Pidcock’s Royal Menagerie 1, 2

  Pierrot 1n

  Pitt, Harriet 1

  Pitt, Thomas 1

  Pitt, William (the Younger) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Pizarro 1

  Planché, JR 1, 2

  Plymouth’s Dock Theatre 1

  pony races, novelties and 1

  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 1

  Powell, William 1

  The Power of Witchcraft 1

  Prelude (Wordsworth, W) 1, 2

  Price, Benjamin 1

  Price, Stephen 1

  Le Prix de Cythère 1

  Pryor, Richard 1

  Pulitzer, Joseph 1n

  Punch 1

  Puss in Boots 1

  Putney 1, 2, 3

  Ramoo Samee 1

  Ramsey, Allan 1

  Real Life in London (Egan, P) 1

  The Red Dwarf 1

  Redigé, Paulo (‘Little Devil’) 1, 2, 3

  Redrigé, Signor (son of Paulo) 1, 2

  Reeve, William 1

  Reminiscences (Dibdin, 1827) 1

  Reynolds, Frederick 1, 2, 3, 4

  Rich, John 1, 2

  Richard Coeur de Lion 1

  Richard III; or, the Battle of Bosworth Field 1, 2

  Richer, Jack 1, 2

  Ridgeway, Tom 1, 2, 3

  Rinaldo (Handel) 1n

  Riot Act 1

  The Rival Loyalists 1

  Robinson, ‘Perdita’ 1

  Robinson Crusoe 1, 2, 3

  Robson, William 1

  The Romp 1

  Rotherhithe 1

  Royal Aquatic Theatre 1, 2, 3, 4

  Royal Circus (later Surrey Theatre) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

  Royalty Theatre 1, 2

  Sadler’s Wells 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 boxing bouts at 1

  catastrophic accident at 1

  Dibdin’s return 1

  financial troubles 1, 2, 3

  Grimaldi’s last appearance 1

  lease of 1

  losses and in-fighting at 1, 2

  ‘New School for Clowns’ foundation of 1

  recovery from accident 1

  specialisation in pantomime 1

  St Clement Danes 1

  St George, the Champion of England 1

  St James’s Square 1

  St John’s Street 1

  St Louis, Madame 1

  Salmagundi; or, the Clown’s Dish of All Sorts 1

  Sam (footman) 1, 2, 3

  Sans Culottes 1

  The Sans Culottes and the Grand Culottes 1

  Saunders, ‘the inimitable Mr’ 1

  The School for Scandal 1

  The Scotch Ghost 1

  Searle, Miss (Colombine in Mother Goose) 1

  Sellers, Peter 1

  Sellis, Joseph 1

  Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of 1

  Sharp (Islington doctor) 1

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 composure in face o
f ruin 1

  era-defining management, end of 1

  fall from grace 1

  Siddons, Sarah 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Siddons, William 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  The Siege of Belgrade 1

  The Siege of Gibraltar 1, 2

  Simmons, Samuel 1

  Sir Francis Drake 1

  The Sixes; or, the Fiends 1

  Sketches by Boz (Dickens, C) 1

  Sloman, Master 1

  Smalley, Master 1

  Smith, Charles Brantiffe 1

  Society of Friends 1

  The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe, J von) 1

  Southby, William 1

  Southey, Robert 1

  Spa Fields riots 1, 2

  Staberin, Katerina 1

  Stangate Street, Lambeth 1

  Stevens, William 1

  Stewart, Sir Charles 1n

  The Talisman of Orosmanes; of, Harlequin Made Happy 1

  The Talking Bird 1

  Tartars 1

  Taylor, Miss (Colombine) 1

  Tell, William 1

  The Temple of Death 1

  Terpsichore’s Return 1, 2

  Tett brothers 1

  Thackeray, William Makepeace 1

  Thalaba the Destroyer 1

  Thames River 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Theatre of Mirth 1

  Theatres Regulation Act 1

  The Theatrical Candidates 1, 2

  Theatrical Inquisitor 1

  Theatrical Observer 1

  Thompson, Thomas Peronet 1

  Three Wishes 1

  Tierney, George 1

  The Times 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

  Torrington, Lord 1

  Tower of London 1, 2, 3

  Trench, Captain 1

  A Trip to the Camp 1

  The Triumph of Mirth 1, 2, 3

  Trott (Hatton Garden Constable) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Truro 1

  The Uncertainy of the Signs of Death (Winslow, J-B) 1, 2, 3

  Undine; or, the Spirit of the Waters 1

  Union, Act of 1

  Usher, Dicky 1, 2

  Valentine and Orson 1, 2, 3n

  Vauxhall Gardens 1

  Victoria, new age (and reforms) of 1

  Vyne, Mary 1

  Wapping 1

  Ware, William 1

  Waterloo, victory at (and demand for memorabilia) 1

  Watts, Richard 1, 2

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of 1, 2, 3

  Wells, Dickey 1

  Wells (‘Indian combat’ participant) 1

  Wells Yard, coronets familiar in 1

  ‘Wertherism’ 1

  West, William 1

  Weymouth 1

  Wheeler, Richard 1, 2, 3, 4

  Whigs 1

  Whitbread, Samuel 1

  Whitehead, Charles 1

  Whitmore (Covent Garden scene-painter) 1, 2

  Wieland, George 1

  Wieland and Chikini (Drury Lane Clowns) 1

  The Wild Man 1

  Wilkinson, Isabella 1

  Wilkinson, Tate 1

  Wilks, Thomas Egerton 1

  William, Tell 1

  William IV 1

  Williams, Llewellyn Watkin 1

  Williams, Robin 1

  Williamson, Lascelles 1, 2, 3

  Wilson, James 1

  Winslow, Jacques-Bénigne 1, 2

  Winston, James (Drury Lane acting manager) 1n, 2

  The Wizard of the Silver Rocks; or, Harlequin’s Release 1, 2

  The Wizard’s Wake 1

  Wolf Club 1

  The Wonders of Derbyshire 1

  Worcester 1

  Wordsworth, William 1, 2

  World 1n

  Wroughton, Richard 1, 2, 3

  Yarnold, William 1

  Copyright

  First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Canongate Books Ltd,

  14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

  This digital edition first published in 2009 by Canongate Books

  Copyright © Andrew McConnell Stott, 2009

  The moral right of the author has been asserted

  British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

  A catalogue record for this book is available on

  request from the British Library

  ISBN 978 1 84767 816 4

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