シェイクスピア上演史および英国戯曲史を語る上で欠かせない名優達の足跡とその時代の実像を、同時代に執筆された複数の伝記資料で浮かび上がらせる、初の復刻文献コレクションが刊行になります。年代順に過去2世紀のイギリスで最も偉大な俳優達を取り上げ、第１集では、長いキャリアを通じて18世紀のロンドン演劇界に君臨した名優ディヴィッド・ギャリック(1717-1779)、アイルランド俳優で劇作家のチャールズ・マクリン(1697-1797)、ギャリックとの関係でも世情を賑わした名女優マーガレット（ペグ）・ヴォフィントン(1714?-1760)の伝記資料を集成します。俳優自身あるいは同時代の言説、記事を通じ、俳優達の功績と人生の両面を明らかにします。編者による総合序文、ヘッドノート、脚注、参考文献書誌、年表、巻末インデックスも付記。

○第１集収録内容○

◇Volume 1: David Garrick
Extracts from: John Adolphus, Memoirs of John Bannister (1839)
Anon, A Clear Stage and No Favour: Or, Tragedy and Comedy at War (1746)
Anon, The Life of Mr James Quin, Comedian (1766); Anon, The Theatrical Examiner (1757)
George Anne Bellamy, An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, Late of Covent Garden Theatre (1785)
James Boaden, The private correspondence of David Garrick, with the most celebrated persons of his time; now first published from the originals And a new biographical memoir (1831-2)
Charles Churchill, The Rosciad (1761)
Theophilus Cibber, Dissertations on Theatrical Subjects (1755)
George Colman, A Letter of Abuse, to D---d G-----k, Esq (1757)
Thomas Davies, Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick (1780)
Thomas Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies (1784); Percy Fitzgerald, The Life of David Garrick (1899)
Thaddeus Fitzpatrick, An Enquiry into the Real Merit of a Certain Popular Performer (1760)
Samuel Foote, A Treatise on the Passions so far as they regard the Stage (1747)
David Garrick, An Essay on Acting (1744)
David Garrick, Reasons Why David Garrick, Esq, Should Not Appear on the Stage (1759)
Francis Gentleman, The Dramatic Censor (1770)
John Hill, The Actor: A Treatise on the Art of Playing (1750)
John Hill, To David Garrick,Esq: The Petition of I (1759)
Arthur Murphy, Hamlet with Alterations (1773)
Arthur Murphy, The Life of David Garrick, Esq (1801)
Jean Noverre, Lettres sur La Danse, et sur Les Ballets (1760)
An Old Comedian, The Life and Death of David Garrick, Esq, the Celebrated English Roscius (1779)
Joseph Pittard, Observations on Mr Garrick’s Acting (1758)
T W Robertson, David Garrick: A love story (1864)
David Williams, A Letter to David Garrick, Esq, on his conduct as principal manager and actor at Drury-Lane (1772)
Extracts from The Gentleman’s Magazine, The London Chronicle, The Theatrical Monitor, The Theatrical Review and The Universal Museum.

◇Volume 2: Charles Macklin
Extracts from: A Citizen of the World, The Genuine Arguments of the Council (1774)
Anon, An apology for the conduct of Mr Charles Macklin, comedian; which, it is hoped, will have some effect in favour of an aged player, by whom the public at large have for many years been uncommonly gratified (1773)
Anon, Case of Mr Macklin Late of Covent- Garden Theatre, Against Mess Clarke, Aldys, Lee, James, and Miles (1775)
Anon, The Drama, A Poem (1775)
Anon, A Trip to Parnassus; Or, The Judgment of Apollo on Dramatic Authors and Performers A Poem (1788)
Anon, The Poetical Review, A Poem (1778)
David Erskine Baker, Biographia Dramatica, Or, A Companion to the Playhouse A New Edition (1782)
John Bernard, Retrospections of the Stage By the Late John Bernard, Manager of the American Theatres, and Formerly Secretary to the Beef-Steak Club (1830)
William Chetwood, A general history of the stage, from its origin in Greece down to the present time (1749)
Charles Churchill, ‘The Rosciad’, Poems (1765)
William Cooke, Memoirs of Charles Macklin, Comedian (1804)
Francis Congreve, Authentic Memoirs of the Late Mr Charles Macklin, Comedian (1798)
Charles Dibdin, A Complete history of the English stage (1800)
David Garrick, Mr Garrick’s Answer to Mr Macklin’s Case (1743)
Joseph Haslewood, The Secret History of the Green Room: Containing Authentic and Entertaining Memoirs of the Actors and Actresses in the Three Theatres Royal (1792)
Daniel Hayes, The Works in Verse of Daniel Hayes (1785)
John Hill, The Actor; Or, A Treatise on the Art of Playing (1755)
Thomas Holcroft, Alwyn: Or The Gentleman Comedian (1780)
James T Kirkman, Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin (1799)
Georg C Lichtenberg, Letter from England (1775)
Charles Macklin, Mr MACKLIN’S REPLY to Mr Garrick’s answer To which are prefix’d, all the papers which have publickly appeared, in regard to this important dispute (1743)
John O’Keeffe, Recollections of the life of John O’Keeffe, Written By Himself (1826)
Anthony Pasquin, The Children of Thespis (1787)
John Taylor, Records of My Life (1832)
John Villette, The Annals of Newgate; Or Malefactors Register (1776)
Tate Wilkinson, Memoirs of His Own Life (1790)
The Case of Charles Macklin, Comedian (1743)
Theatrical Portraits (c1780)　Extracts from The Hibernian Magazine, The Monthly Mirror and The True Briton.

◇Volume 3: Margaret Woffington
Extracts from: Anon, A Guide to the Stage (1751)
Anon, London, A Satire (1551)
Anon, Memoirs of the Celebrated Mrs Woffington (1760)
Anon, The Vision Inscribed to Mrs Woffington (1753)
Anon, Woffington’s Ghost A poem In answer to the Meretriciad (1761)
W R Chetwood, A General History of the Stage (1749)
Thoephilus Cibber, A Serio-Comic Apology for the Life of Mr T Cibber (1748)
Thomas Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies (1785); John Hill, The Actor: a Treatise on the Art of Playing (1750)
John Hoole, Monody: to the Memory of Mrs Margaret Woffington (1760)
James Kirkman, Memoirs of the Life of C Macklin (1799)
James Quin, Life of James Quin, Comedian (1766)
Benjamin Victor, The History of the Theatres of London and Dublin (1761)
Thomas Wilkes, A General View of the Stage (1759)
Tate Wilkinson, Memoirs of his own Life (1790)
‘An Epilogue intended to be spoken by Mrs Woffington, in the Habit of a Volunteer, upon reading the Gazette, containing an Account of the late Action at Falkirk’, The Female Volunteer (1746)
Original Letters, Dramatic Pieces and Poems (1776)
‘To His Grace the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland & c & c The Humble Petition of Margaret Woffington, Spinster’, Gentleman’s Magazine (1751)

●第２集収録内容●

◆Volume 1: Edmund Kean
William Robson, The Old Playgoer; Crabb Robinson, Reminiscences (1814)
Crabb Robinson, Diary (1814-1827)
G H Lewes, On Actors and the Art of Acting; Evidence to Select Committee; Dr Francis of New York ‘Old New York'; R C Leslie Autobiography; F Reynolds; T C Grattan My Acquaintance with the late Edmund Kean (1833)
Life of C M Young; Quarterly Review (1835)
Miss Berry’s Journal (1813)
New Monthly Magazine 1833; Blackwoods Magazine (1840)
Life of EllistonI; Michael Kelly, Reminiscences; W C Maxcready Reminiscences; Barry Conrwall; European Magazine (1814)
Thos Moore, Life of Byron; Washington Irving, Life & Letter; Gabriel Harrison, Payne; George Vandenhoff, ‘Leaves…’; James H Hackett, New York Mirror (1834)
Helena Faucit ‘On some of….’; Joe Cowell, ‘Thirty Years…'; 'Review of Edmund Kean as Richard III', The Champion (1814)
'Review of Edmund Kean as Macbeth', The Champion (1814)
'Review of Edmund Kean as Romeo', The Champion (1815)
'Review of Edmund Kean as Iago', The Examiner (1814)
'Review of Edmund Kean as Richard II', The Examiner (1815)
'Review of Edmund Kean as Coriolanus', London Magazine (1820)
'Review of Edmund Kean as King Lear', London Magazine (1820)
Leigh Hunt, 'Review of Edmund Kean as Richard III', Tatler (1831)
Leigh Hunt, 'Review of Edmund Kean as Othello', Tatler (1831)

◆Volume 2: Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble
James Boaden, Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons (1827)
James Boaden, Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble (1825)
James Boaden, Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald (1833)
homas Campbell, Life of Mrs. Siddons (1834)
John Doran, “Their Majesties Servants” Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean (1888)
Percy Fitzgerald, The Kembles: An Account of the Lives of the Kemble Family, Including the Lives of Sarah Siddons, and Her Brother John Philip Kemble (1871)
John Genest, Some Account of the English Stage (1832)
Florence Parsons, The Incomparable Siddons (1909)
Thomas Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakespeare (1785)
Thomas Dutton, The Dramatic and Literary Censor (1800-1801)
William Hazlitt, Characters of Shakespear’s Plays (1817)
Extracts form Macbeth; Extracts from The Winters Tale; 'Mrs. Siddons', A View of the English Stage or a Series of Dramatic Criticisms (1818)
Extracts from The London Magazine (1820)
Extracts from The Examiner (1828)
Extracts from The Plain Speaker (1826)
Extracts from Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft (1816)
'Mrs. Hill’s Lady Macbeth', The Champion (1817)
'Miss O’Neill', The Times (1814)
'Mrs. Siddons as Lady Macbeth', Conversations of James Northcote (1830)
Leigh Hunt, 'Mrs Siddons', Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatre (1807)
Charles Lamb, The Prose Works of Charles Lamb (1835)
'To Mrs. Siddons' The Morning Chronicle (1794)
Observations on Mrs. Siddons, In the Following Characters: Margaret of Anjou, Belvidera, Jane Shore, Lady Randolph, Isabella, Zara, Euphrasia, and Zara in the Mourning Bride. By a Lady. (1784)
Peter Pindar [John Wolcot], Ode Upon Ode; Or A Peep at St. James’s; or New-Year’s Day; or What You Will (1787)
William Russell, The Tragic Muse: A Poem (1783)
Funereal Stanzas, inscribed to the revered memory of Mrs. Anne Crawford. With a comparative dissertation between her theatrical merits and those of Mrs. Siddons. (1803)
The New Rosciad (1785)
The Siddoniad: A Poetical Essay (1785)
The Theatrical Portrait, A Poem, On the Celebrated Mrs. Siddons, In the Characters of Calista, Jane Shore, Belvidera, and Isabella (1783)
Letters of Sarah and William Siddons to Hester Lynch Piozzi; Sarah Kemble Siddons, The Reminiscences of Sarah Kemble Siddons; Frances Burney, The Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay; Catherine Galindo, Mrs. Galindo’s Letter to Mrs. Siddons: Being A Circumstantial Detail of Mrs. Siddons’s Life for the Last Seven Years; With Several of Her Letters (1809)
David Garrick, Selected Letters; The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington (1788-1822)
E Mangin, Piozziana; Or, Recollections of the Late Mrs. Piozzi, With Remarks (1833)
Thraliana The Diary of Mrs. Hester Lynch Thrale (Later Mrs. Piozzi) (1776-1809)
Henry Crabb Robinson, Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence (1869)
Anna Seward, The Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between The Years 1784 and 1807 (1811)
Selected reviews from: The Middlesex Journal, The Morning Chronicle, Public Advertiser, Morning Post, Freeman’s Journal, Dublin Evening Post, Town and Country Magazine, The Examiner, London Magazine, Westminster Gazette, Bell’s Oracle, The Times

◆Volume 3: Harriet Smithson
Memoir of Miss H C Smithson (1825)
Alexandre Dumas, Mes Memoires; E Delecluze Journal; Gazette Musicale (1834)
Letters of Countess Granville to the Duke of Devonshire; M Moreau, Souvenirs du Theatre Anglais a Paris; Mrs Baron Wilson, Our Actresses; E P Dutton Cook, Gentleman's Magazine (1879)
Jules Janin, Journal des Debats; Reviews of Harriet Smithson in: Bell's Weekly Messenger, Corsaire, Courrier, The Examiner, The Globe, Journal des Debats, Literary Chronicle, London Magazine, New Monthly Magazine, Quotidien, Theatrical Observer, The Times, Weekly Review

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　『シェイクスピア俳優と上演史』の企画書を見て、私は少なからず興奮している。

　ローレンス・オリヴィエやジョン・ギールグッドといった２０世紀の名優がシェイクスピア劇をどのように演じたかは、我々にもかなりよく分る。視聴覚資料がたくさん残っているからである。しかし１８世紀や１９世紀の俳優については、もちろんそうは行かない。それなら、この時代の名優の演技については何も分らないのかというと、実は決してそうではない。名優たちについては例外なく詳しい伝記が書かれており、時には名優自身が回想録を残している場合もある。それらを読んだら、彼等の演技は具体的に想像できるようになるからだ。ユーリカ・プレスの担当者から、何か面白い企画はないかと尋ねられた時、私は、名優の伝記をまとめて再刊するのはどうだろうと答えた。幸いこの企画はイギリスの出版社の目にとまり、私が最初に思い描いていたよりもはるかに網羅的で充実したかたちで実現することになった。興奮せずにはいられない。

18世紀のイギリス劇壇でいちばん重要な人物は、俳優で劇作家でロンドンの大劇場ドルーリー・レインの支配人でもあったデイヴィッド・ギャリックだが、そのギャリックについての巻には、彼の伝記や彼自身が書いた演劇論はもとより、同時代の人々がこの名優の仕事を論じたエッセイ、彼に宛てた書簡、さてはその時代の定期刊行物の記事など、厖大な資料が集められている。いずれもギャリックやこの時代の演劇についての重要な一次資料だが、それらのほとんどは、これまでは、大きな図書館へ行き、手間をかけて個別に閲覧するほかなかったものだ。ギャリックだけではない。キーンやケンブルといった名優についても、珍しい資料が一冊の本にまとめられて簡単に読めるようになるというのは、まさに夢のような話である。今後18世紀や19世紀のイギリス演劇についての―特にシェイクスピア上演についての―研究を、この資料集成をぬきにして行うことは不可能になるだろう。

私自身も、この叢書を読みながら名優の演技を思い描くのを楽しみにしている。