Table of Contents

Chapter 1 William Shakespeare; Chapter 2 Samuel Pepys; Chapter 3 Colley Cibber; Chapter 4 Thomas Betterton; Chapter 5 Barton Booth; Chapter 6 John Dennis; Chapter 7 Charles Macklin; Chapter 8 James Quin; Chapter 9 David Garrick; Chapter 10 Peg Woffington; Chapter 11 Susannah Cibber; Chapter 12 John Henderson; Chapter 13 Samuel Reddish; Chapter 14 Mary Robinson; Chapter 15 Dr Samuel Johnson; Chapter 16 James William Dodd; Chapter 17 Master Betty; Chapter 18 John Philip Kemble; Chapter 19 George Frederick Cooke; Chapter 20 William Bensley; Chapter 21 Solomon Franklin (‘Sol’) Smith; Chapter 22 Sarah Siddons; Chapter 23 Robert ‘Romeo’ Coates; Chapter 24 Edmund Kean; Chapter 25 Charles Kemble; Chapter 26 Robert William Elliston; Chapter 27 Edwin Forrest; Chapter 28 William Charles Macready; Chapter 29 Lester Wallack; Chapter 30 Ellen Terry; Chapter 31 Charles Kean; Chapter 32 John Coleman; Chapter 33 Sir Henry Irving; Chapter 34 Tommaso Salvini; Chapter 35 Elena Modjeska; Chapter 36 Barry Sullivan; Chapter 37 Samuel Phelps; Chapter 38 Dame Madge Kendal; Chapter 39 Sir Frank Benson; Chapter 40 Ada Rehan; Chapter 41 Constance Benson; Chapter 42 Louis Calvert; Chapter 43 Julia Neilson; Chapter 44 Sir Barry Jackson; Chapter 45 William Poel; Chapter 46 Mrs Patrick Campbell; Chapter 47 Robert Mantell; Chapter 48 Lewis Waller; Chapter 49 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree; Chapter 50 Konstantin Stanislavski; Chapter 51 Lilian Baylis; Chapter 52 Harley Granville-Barker; Chapter 53 Russell Thorndike; Chapter 54 John Barrymore; Chapter 55 Theodore Komisarjevsky; Chapter 56 Sir Ralph Richardson; Chapter 57 Max Reinhardt; Chapter 58 Charles Laughton; Chapter 59 Fanny Rowe; Chapter 60 Sir John Gielgud; Chapter 61 Geoffrey Kendal; Chapter 62 Peggy Ashcroft; Chapter 63 Sir Michael Redgrave; Chapter 64 Sir Tyrone Guthrie; Chapter 65 Sir Laurence Olivier (Baron Olivier of Brighton); Chapter 66 Alec Clunes; Chapter 67 Sir Donald Wolfit; Chapter 68 Peter Brook; Chapter 69 Claire Bloom; Chapter 70 Diana Wynyard; Chapter 71 Sir Alec Guinness; Chapter 72 Franco Zeffirelli; Chapter 73 Richard Burton; Chapter 74 Trevor Nunn; Chapter 75 Peter Hall; Chapter 76 Simon Callow; Chapter 77 Sinead Cusack; Chapter 78 Antony Sher; Chapter 79 Kenneth Branagh; Chapter 80 Declan Donnellan; Chapter 81 Ian Charleson;

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Ralph Berry