Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, of the King's Theatre, and Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Including a Period of Nearly Half a Century

Table of Contents

1. First performance of the Siege of Belgrade
2. The author's mistake in taking Sir Charles Turner for Hobler, the chorus-singer
3. The author at Paris
4. Paesiello's comic opera, the 'Zingari in Fiera', at the King's Theatre
5. The Beggar's Opera prohibited in Dublin
6. Edinburgh
7. First performance of the Wheel of Fortune
8. The author apprehended as a French spy at Dover
9. Fracas at Plymouth Dock
10. Anecdotes of Monk Lewis
11. Mazzanti, the Italian soprano, at the performance of the Beggar's Opera Travestied
12. Mrs. Billington's dismay at the unexpected appearance of Monsieur de Felican, her husband
13. Difficulty of eating on the stage
14. The King's Theatre opened by Mr. Francis Goold
15. Tobin's Honey Moon
16. Miss De Camp in the 'Forty Thieves'
17. Madame Catalani dancing in a kitchen at Bangor, to the music of an old blind harper
18. Covent Garden Theatre burnt to the ground
19. The author's last appearance on the stage
20. Kean's first appearance as a tragedian in 'Shylock'
21. Arrival at Paris
22. Death of Sheridan
23. List of sixty-two dramatic pieces, for which Kelly composed the music
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