Mr C Kemble Will Make His Sixth Appearance Here This Season This Present Evening Friday April 3 1829

by Edinburgh Theatre Royal

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Edinburgh: 1829. Broadside, approx. 11 x 8½ , light toning, else near fine. Charles Kemble 1775-1854 was one of the famous family of actors which included John Phillip Kemble, Stephen Kemble, and Sarah Kemble Siddons, all of whom were known for their Shakespearian roles. Charles Kemble's eldest son, John Mitchell Kemble, a protege of Jacob Grimm, was the foremost Anglo-Saxon scholar in England at the time, and made the first English translation of Beowulf, published by Pickering

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