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Two Late Restoration Cast Lists for Macbeth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

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1 The copy also has three other ink notations: “Moving Scene,” on p. 50, and two marks on p. 51. The handwriting appears to be the same.

2 Summers, Montague, The Playhouse of Pepys (London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1935), p. 159Google Scholar.

3 The printed cast list in Hickmott 65 is that of the 1673 quarto—Lee, Norris, “Codeman,” Medbourn, the “Battertons,” Smith, Harris, Long, and Sanford. Richard Noble of the Dartmouth College Libraries has pointed out to me in correspondence that the misspelling of Cademan's name is peculiar to the 1695 edition.

4 Possibly “Barry”; e, a, and o are not always clear in this hand. This name appears to be different from “Barry” farther down the list, suggesting that the “e” reading is correct. Thomas Berry was an actor with Betterton, c. 1700–1701.

5 Not written in, but an inked line runs from the character to the printed name.

6 Possibly “Vorbruggon”; see n. 4.

7 “Bracegirdle” crossed out.

8 Highfill, Philip et al. , A Biographical Dictionary of Actors…1660–1800, Vol. 7, 353354Google Scholar. “Hudson” was not an uncommon spelling of the name.

9 Sherburn, Mrs. Willis, Lee, Spalding, Mrs. Hodgson, Curco, Bowman, Short, Wiltshire. Montague Summers' note in Pepys, p. 329, however, on Wiltshire's return to the stage only by 1697 may cast some doubt on this dating. I am indebted to Judith Milhous and Robert Hume for their help with problems in the London Stage treatment of the Stoddard Lincoln evidence, as well as with other matters of stage history.