History & The Arts
Queen Victoria on William Shakespeare
...table. Lord Melbourne looked at some new woodcut illustrations of Shakespear; and he talked of Romeo and Juliet, which I said I had never seen; Mrs. Cibber, he said, was supposed to be the best Juliet there ever was; she used to act with Garrick and Barry, and Lord M. said the Balcony Scene was the celebrated one, and “Mrs. Cibber used to say that when Garrick acted it,...