Portrait of Yates.
1842
Fred Yates was an actor-manager, again associated with Dickens's early theatre work. [See commentary below.]
Scanned image, text, and bibliographical information by Philip V. Allingham.
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Portrait of Yates. 1842 Fred Yates was an actor-manager, again associated with Dickens's early theatre work. [See commentary below.] Scanned image, text, and bibliographical information by Philip V. Allingham. |
Fred Yates (1795-1842), the noted Regency and early Victorian actor-manager, had been co-manager with Daniel Terry at the Adelphi for three years when, in 1828 he entered into a similar arrangement with popular leading-man Charles Mathews, whose "at homes" drew packed houses during their shared, seven-year tenure of the house noted for the suspenseful and violent species of meloframa known as "The Adelphi Screamer." According to Paul Schlicke in the Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens (1999),
From 1836, as sole manager, he staged and acted in several Dickens dramatizations, playing Pickwick (1836-7); Mantalini in Stirling's Nicholas Nickleby (1838), which was praised by Dickens; Fagin in Oliver Twist (1839); and Sir John Chester and Miss Miggs in Barnaby Rudge (1841-2). Dickens himself advised on the Adelphi's The Old Curiosity Shop (1840), in which Yates played Quilp to Dickens's satisfaction. (597)
"The Late Fred. H. Yates." Illustrated London News. (1842).
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