{"id":"01KG8AZJGJ6X5M2DSTY4ZJ5PRT","cid":"bafkreicrqs27vij4vdjh2wfpmuseuxa23cibkustcov4u4u2nw7yhhg244","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiccffpcszv2zp5muuozkt3dbqe3xk2hcbjhsv6keakgxiejhnapo4","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"04_henry_iv_part_2_1921_page_0161.jpg","height":1817,"key":"pdf-page-1769806480405-68l5vaowdtr","label":"04_henry_iv_part_2_1921_page_0161.jpg","page_number":161,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":487557,"text":"King\nHenry\nthe\nFourth\n14-9\nOn December 11, 1761, and for twenty-two con\nsecutive days, King Henry IV, Part II, was presented\nat Covent Garden in honor of the coronation of King\nGeorge III. For this performance an elaborate\ncoronation pageant was devised which was used again\nin 1821 by Macready at the time of the coronation\nof William IV. Other revivals occurred at Drury\nLane in 1764 and 1777, and at Covent Garden in\n1773, 1784, and 1804. A sensational feature of\nthe 1773 performance was the appearance of an\nanonymous 'Gentleman' as the King, 'his first per\nformance on any stage/ and of Mrs. Lessingham, for\nwhose benefit the play was given, as Prince Hal.\nIn the 1804 production John Philip Kemble played\nthe King, and Charles Kemble the Prince. Charles\nKemble again appeared as the Prince in Macready's\nproduction in June, July, and August, 1821.\nOf Macready's performance he himself writes in\nhis Reminiscences; 'Kemble had revived the play in\n1804, but produced little effect. Garrick had not\ngiven the prominence he had expected to the part\nof the King, and for these reasons I begged to be\nexcused from appearing in it. But my objections\nwere set aside. . . . To every line of it I gave the\nmost deliberate attention, and felt the full power\nof its pathos. The audience hung intently on every\nword. The admission of the perfect success of the\nperformance was without dissent. The revival re\nwarded the managers with houses crowded to the\nceiling for many nights, nor was this attributable to\nthe pageant only, for the acting was of the highest\norder. Fawcett was the best Falstaff then upon the\nstage, but he more excelled in other parts.' The per\nfection of Macready's success was not, however,\n'without dissent.' 'An old playgoer,' in a letter to\nTallis's Dramatic Magazine for April, 1851, says of\nMacready's Henry IV: \"In this role he approached\nnearest to an elocutionist, but generally the effect of","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:54:40.405Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1118},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4MQB10V83VB7VGQ9V7D","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:54:41.938Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:54:44.094Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}