Samuel Phelps
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Samuel Phelps was an English actor-manager. He is known for reviving the fortunes of the neglected Sadler's Wells Theatre and for his productions of Shakespeare's plays which were presented with atten
Phelps, 1870s
As Hamlet, late 1830s
As Macbeth, 1850
Phelps's grave in Highgate Cemetery
F. B. Chatterton
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Frederick Balsir Chatterton, known as F. B. Chatterton was a 19th-century British theatre manager and impresario who was lessee of the Theatre Royal in London's Drury Lane from 1866 to 1879. He is cre
Samuel Phelps
…an offer from Charles Fechter to join the latter's company at the Lyceum Theatre, but the collaboration was an unhappy one, and in 1863 he joined F. B. Chatterton and Edmund Falconer at Drury Lane, where he remained for seven years, successfully reprising many of his old parts and adding the title role in Byron's…
Frederick Balsir Chatterton
Sadler's Wells Theatre in 1879
Façade of St James's Theatre in 1836. Chatterton was manager here from 1859 to 1860
Chatterton as depicted in Figaro (c1870)