... Falstaffs. Elliston was highly individual and drank too much. But he achieved a major ambition when he became manager of Drury Lane, where he opened his first season with Kean in King Lear. He went bankrupt, but made a return to the theatre at the Surrey ...

... writer, composer, actor, director, matinee idol, manager. His musicals were his grandest product, and some of them filled Drury Lane for years. His plays were for the season, not particularly strong, but diverting and invariably well cast with names that ...

... misery, offset this. One hour in power and command at Drury Lane, the next he would be sodden with drink, a fool lost in tavern debauchery. There is a mass of complicated material concerning Drury Lane itself, as well as Kean's work there, and this Mr F ...