Kean

Edmund, the great tragedian, was born about 1788, and began his theatrical career at the age of two in a pan to mine. He had made his fame in the Provinces as Hamlet, Cato, etc., before he was 13. In 1808 he married Mi Chambers, an actre in his company; in 1814 he appeared at Drury Lane as Shylock, and for the next 10 years had an unparalleled series ot succe es, as Othello, Uavilct, Macbeth, Iago, Lear, etc. In 1825 he made a very discreditable appearance in a divorce case, which lost him public favour; and his di olute habits brought him to the grave in 1833. stable proprietor, and was trained for a medical career, but in 1817, encouraged by Leigh Hunt and Shelley and other friends, he began to devote himself entirely to literature. “Endymion” appeared in 1818, and was attacked with savage and sensele brutality by "The Quarterly Review"; "The Eve of St. Agnes’’ appeared in 1820; and he died of consumption in the following year. He was the most Greek in spirit of all English poets, though he knew no Greek; see his “Ode to a Grecian Inn" and “ Sonnet on looking Into Chapman’s Homer." Shelley mourned his untimely death in " Adonais.” and became Profe or of Poetry at Oxford. He was a zealous High Churchman, and was a ociated with Newman and Puscy in the “ Tracts for the Times.” He is best known, however, by his “Christian Year. 1809, and was a niece of Mrs. Siddons and of P. Kemble, the tragedian. She appeared at Covent J. Garden Theatre as Juliet in 1829, and had very great succe , completely relieving the financial difficulties of her family. She was equally succe ful in America, but had the misfortune to make a most unwise marriage there, which was annulled by divorce four years later. In 1835 she left the stage to devote herself to literature. born in 1757, and appeared at Drury Lane Theatre in 1783. From 1788 to 1802 he was manager of the Drury Lane Theatre, in 1801-3 he toured most succe fully in France and Spain, and then purchased a share in Covcnt Garden Theatre, where he made his world-wide reputation. He was the cause of the famous * 0.P. (olcl price) Riots’ by raising the