The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs

Successors of Scowton and Richardson--Nelson Lee--Crowther, the Actor--Paul Herring--Newman and Allen's Theatre--Fair in Hyde Park--Hilton's Menagerie--Bartholomew Fair again th...

Saker and the Lees--Richardson's Theatre--Wombwell, the Menagerist--The Lion Fights at Warwick--Maughan, the Showman--Miss Hipson, the Fat Girl--Lydia Walpole, the Dwarf--The Pe...

Bartholomew Fair Theatricals--Lee, the Theatrical Printer--Harper, the Comedian--Rayner and Pullen--Fielding, the Novelist, a Showman--Cibber's Booth--Hippisley, the Actor--Fire...

Edmund Kean--Mystery of his Parentage--Saunders's Circus--Scowton's Theatre--Belzoni--The Nondescript--Richardson's Theatre--The Carey Family--Kean, a Circus Performer--Oxberry,...

Attempts to Suppress the Shows at Bartholomew Fair--A remarkable Dutch Boy--Theatrical Booths at the London Fairs--Penkethman, the Comedian--May Fair--Barnes and Finley--Lady Ma...

A new Race of Showmen--Yeates, the Conjuror--The Turkish Rope-Walker--Pan and the Oronutu Savage--The Corsican Fairy--Perry's Menagerie--The Riobiscay and the Double Cow--A Merm...

Strolling Players in the Seventeenth Century--Southwark Fair--Bartholomew Fair--Pepys and the Monkeys--Polichinello--Jacob Hall, the Rope-Dancer--Another Bearded Woman--Richards...

Amusements of the Fairs in the Middle Ages--Shows and Showmen of the Sixteenth Century--Banks and his Learned Horse--Bartholomew Fair in the time of Charles I.--Punch and Judy--...

Origin of Fairs--Charter Fairs at Winchester and Chester--Croydon Fairs--Fairs in the Metropolis--Origin of Bartholomew Fair--Disputes between the Priors and the Corporation--Th...

Yates and Shuter--Cat Harris--Mechanical Singing Birds--Lecture on Heads--Pidcock's Menagerie--Breslaw, the Conjuror--Reappearance of the Corsican Fairy--Gaetano, the Bird Imita...

While the character of the theatrical entertainments presented at the London fairs declined from the middle of the eighteenth century, when Yates and Shuter ceased to appear in...

Successors of Scowton and Richardson--Nelson Lee--Crowther, the Actor--Paul Herring--Newman and Allen's Theatre--Fair in Hyde Park--Hilton's Menagerie--Bartholomew Fair again th...

Saker and the Lees--Richardson's Theatre--Wombwell, the Menagerist--The Lion Fights at Warwick--Maughan, the Showman--Miss Hipson, the Fat Girl--Lydia Walpole, the Dwarf--The Pe...

Bartholomew Fair Theatricals--Lee, the Theatrical Printer-- Harper, the Comedian--Rayner and Pullen--Fielding, the Novelist, a Showman--Cibber's Booth--Hippisley, the Actor-- Fi...

Attempts to Suppress the Shows at Bartholomew Fair--A remarkable Dutch Boy--Theatrical Booths at the London Fairs-- Penkethman, the Comedian--May Fair--Barnes and Finley--Lady M...

Edmund Kean--Mystery of his Parentage--Saunders's Circus-- Scowton's Theatre--Belzoni--The Nondescript--Richardson's Theatre--The Carey Family--Kean, a Circus Performer--Oxberry...

A new Race of Showmen--Yeates, the Conjuror--The Turkish Rope-Walker--Pan and the Oronutu Savage--The Corsican Fairy-- Perry's Menagerie--The Riobiscay and the Double Cow--A Mer...

Yates and Shuter--Cat Harris--Mechanical Singing Birds-- Lecture on Heads--Pidcock's Menagerie--Breslaw, the Conjuror--Reappearance of the Corsican Fairy--Gaetano, the Bird Imit...

Amusements of the Fairs in the Middle Ages--Shows and Showmen of the Sixteenth Century--Banks and his Learned Horse-- Bartholomew Fair in the time of Charles I.--Punch and Judy-...

Strolling Players in the Seventeenth Century--Southwark Fair--Bartholomew Fair--Pepys and the Monkeys--Polichinello-- Jacob Hall, the Rope-Dancer--Another Bearded Woman-- Richar...

Origin of Fairs--Charter Fairs at Winchester and Chester-- Croydon Fairs--Fairs in the Metropolis--Origin of Bartholomew Fair--Disputes between the Priors and the Corporation--T...