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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Dame_Madge_Kendal_by_Valentine_Cameron_Prinsep.jpg/330px-Dame_Madge_Kendal_by_Valentine_Cameron_Prinsep.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Dame_Madge_Kendal_by_Valentine_Cameron_Prinsep.jpg 2x" data-file-width="412" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption> Kendal by <a href="/wiki/Valentine_Cameron_Prinsep" title="Valentine Cameron Prinsep">Valentine Cameron Prinsep</a>, in the role of Lady Giovanna in <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Tennyson">Tennyson</a>'s <i>The Falcon</i>, 1879</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Dame Madge Kendal</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Dame_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire">DBE</a></span></span> (born <b>Margaret Shafto Robertson</b>; 15 March 1848 – 14 September 1935) was an English actress of the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edwardian_era" title="Edwardian era">Edwardian</a> eras, best known for her roles in <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a> and English comedies. Together with her husband, <a href="/wiki/William_Hunter_Kendal" title="William Hunter Kendal">W. H. Kendal (<i>né</i> William Hunter Grimston)</a>, she became an important theatre manager. </p><p>Madge Kendal came from a theatrical family. She was born in <a href="/wiki/Grimsby" title="Grimsby">Grimsby</a> in Lincolnshire, where her father ran a chain of theatres. She began to act as a small child and made her London debut at the age of four. As a teenager she appeared with <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Terry" title="Ellen Terry">Ellen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kate_Terry" title="Kate Terry">Kate Terry</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bath,_Somerset" title="Bath, Somerset">Bath</a>, and played <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Ophelia" title="Ophelia">Ophelia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Desdemona" title="Desdemona">Desdemona</a> in the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a>. Under the management of <a href="/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone" title="John Baldwin Buckstone">J. B. Buckstone</a>, she joined the company of the <a href="/wiki/Haymarket_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Haymarket Theatre">Haymarket Theatre</a> in London in 1869, when she was 21. While in the company she met and married the actor W. H. Kendal. After their marriage, in August 1869, the two made it a rule to appear in the same productions, and became known to the public as "The Kendals". They appeared together in new plays by such dramatists as <a href="/wiki/W._S._Gilbert" title="W. S. Gilbert">W. S. Gilbert</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wing_Pinero" title="Arthur Wing Pinero">Arthur Pinero</a>, and from time to time in classics by Shakespeare, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan" title="Richard Brinsley Sheridan">Sheridan</a> and others. </p><p>After a series of generally successful appearances in London and on tour in Britain, the Kendals joined the actor <a href="/wiki/John_Hare_(actor)" title="John Hare (actor)">John Hare</a> in running the <a href="/wiki/St_James%27s_Theatre" title="St James's Theatre">St James's Theatre</a> between 1879 and 1888, transforming the fortunes of their theatre, previously known for financial failure. In the late 1880s and early 1890s the Kendals spent much of their time in the US, touring more than 40 cities, and making a considerable amount of money. After returning to acting in Britain for more than a decade, they retired in 1908 from their long careers on the stage. </p><p>Madge Kendal was generally considered a finer actor than her husband, and was particularly known for her performances in comic parts. Critical opinion was more divided about her performances in serious roles; some critics regarded her naturalistic acting as sensitive, while others found it cold. The Kendals were part of a movement to make British theatre more socially respectable, and she became known as "the matron of the English theatre". She was active in charitable causes but became estranged from her four surviving children later in life. Kendal outlived her husband and died in retirement at her home in <a href="/wiki/Chorleywood" title="Chorleywood">Chorleywood</a>, Hertfordshire, at the age of 87. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madge_Kendal&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_years">Early years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madge_Kendal&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Madge Robertson, later Kendal, was born in <a href="/wiki/Grimsby" title="Grimsby">Grimsby</a> in Lincolnshire,<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the youngest of the reportedly 22 children of <a href="/wiki/William_Shaftoe_Robertson" title="William Shaftoe Robertson">William Shaftoe Robertson</a> and his wife Margharetta Elisabetta, <i>née</i> Marinus.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her father was from a theatrical family. He performed at eight theatres his family owned in towns in and around Lincolnshire and later became manager of the same. Her mother was from a Dutch family: her father taught languages in London, and she spoke English with no trace of a foreign accent. At the age of 17, she joined the Robertsons' company, meeting William, whom she married in 1828.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her eldest brother was <a href="/wiki/Thomas_William_Robertson" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas William Robertson">T. W. Robertson</a>, a dramatist who led the movement toward naturalistic acting and design in theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her elder sisters Fanny (1830–1903) and Georgina (1840–1913) became actresses.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another brother, Edward Shafto Robertson (1844–1871), became an actor.<sup id="cite_ref-who_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-who-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kendal attended a music academy<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later recorded in her memoirs that her father continually educated her in literature.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lincolnshire theatres gradually became financially unviable,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Robertsons moved to London in the early 1850s, where William became joint manager of the <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Marylebone" title="Theatre Royal, Marylebone">Marylebone Theatre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There, in 1854, aged five, Kendal played the role of young Marie in the drama <i>The Struggle for Gold; or, The Orphan of the Frozen Sea</i> by Edward Stirling, under her father's management.<sup id="cite_ref-k8_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-k8-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other child roles quickly followed: Jeannie, a blind girl, in <i>The Seven Poor Travellers</i> (a stage adaptation of a story by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and roles in the <a href="/wiki/Pantomime" title="Pantomime">pantomime</a> <i>Tit-Tat-Toe</i> and an old melodrama, <i>The Stranger</i>, by <a href="/wiki/August_von_Kotzebue" title="August von Kotzebue">August von Kotzebue</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-k8_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-k8-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The family moved to Bristol in 1855, where Kendal played Eva in a dramatised <i><a href="/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin" title="Uncle Tom's Cabin">Uncle Tom's Cabin</a></i>, in which she had four songs. Her singing was much praised, and an operatic career seemed possible, but she contracted <a href="/wiki/Diphtheria" title="Diphtheria">diphtheria</a>, and her voice suffered after the removal of her tonsils.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, she played a singing role in <i><a href="/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream" title="A Midsummer Night's Dream">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a></i> at the <a href="/wiki/Bath,_Somerset" title="Bath, Somerset">Bath</a> Theatre in 1863, starring the sisters <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Terry" title="Ellen Terry">Ellen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kate_Terry" title="Kate Terry">Kate Terry</a> as <a href="/wiki/Titania_(A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream)" title="Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream)">Titania</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oberon" title="Oberon">Oberon</a>, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seventy years later Kendal recalled the production: "Even today I remember Ellen Terry's performance of Titania as a dream of charm. As girls we were 'Nellie' and 'Madge' to one another and 'Nellie' and 'Madge' we remained until her death".<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over this decade, the Robertsons played steadily in provincial theatres. After Bristol and Bath there was a false start in Kendal's career when she was engaged to play leading roles in the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a>. In July 1865 she opened at the <a href="/wiki/Haymarket_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Haymarket Theatre">Haymarket Theatre</a>, playing <a href="/wiki/Ophelia" title="Ophelia">Ophelia</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a> of <a href="/wiki/Walter_Montgomery_(actor)" title="Walter Montgomery (actor)">Walter Montgomery</a>. Her performance attracted favourable notice. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Era_(newspaper)" title="The Era (newspaper)">The Era</a></i> wrote: </p> <dl><dd>Miss Madge Robertson … is youthful in figure, but thoroughly practised in her art, and has a bright, intelligent face, which seems capable of expressing every variety of emotion. The mad scene in the fourth act was rendered with much taste, pathos and discrimination, and the debutante obtained a conspicuous share of the honours of the evening.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>In the same Haymarket season she played Blanche to Montgomery's <a href="/wiki/King_John_(play)" title="King John (play)">King John</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Desdemona" title="Desdemona">Desdemona</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ira_Aldridge" title="Ira Aldridge">Ira Aldridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But despite good business at the box office, Montgomery was not a top-rank star,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the season did not mark a breakthrough in the leading lady's career.<sup id="cite_ref-wa_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wa-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Returning to provincial theatres, Kendal and her father followed Montgomery to the <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Nottingham" title="Theatre Royal, Nottingham">Theatre Royal, Nottingham</a>, where Montgomery had been appointed director, and in the inauguration in September she spoke the prologue in Sheridan's <i><a href="/wiki/School_for_Scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="School for Scandal">School for Scandal</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later the same year she appeared there as Nerissa, with <a href="/wiki/Mary_Frances_Scott-Siddons" title="Mary Frances Scott-Siddons">Mary Frances Scott-Siddons</a> as Portia and Montgomery as <a href="/wiki/Shylock" title="Shylock">Shylock</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice" title="The Merchant of Venice">The Merchant of Venice</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The next year Kendal rejoined her mother in <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull" title="Kingston upon Hull">Hull</a>. There she played <a href="/wiki/Lady_Macbeth" title="Lady Macbeth">Lady Macbeth</a> opposite <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Phelps" title="Samuel Phelps">Samuel Phelps</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In her brother T. W. Robertson's play <i><a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">Society</a></i>, Kendal played Maud Hetherington, while her mother was Lady Ptarmigant.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Hull, Kendal went with her father to Liverpool, where she starred in <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>, Sheridan and modern plays.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="West_End_star">West End star</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madge_Kendal&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: West End star"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In April 1867 the Robertsons returned to London, where Kendal appeared at <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Drury_Lane" title="Theatre Royal, Drury Lane">Drury Lane</a>, playing Edith Fairlam in <i>The Great City</i>, and then at the Haymarket in <a href="/wiki/E._A._Sothern" class="mw-redirect" title="E. A. Sothern">E. A. Sothern</a>'s company, appearing with him in <i><a href="/wiki/Our_American_Cousin" title="Our American Cousin">Our American Cousin</a></i>, <i>Brother Sam</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/David_Garrick_(play)" title="David Garrick (play)">David Garrick</a></i> and <i>A Hero of Romance</i>, and playing leading roles in two other productions there.<sup id="cite_ref-who_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-who-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the opening of <a href="/wiki/John_Hollingshead" title="John Hollingshead">John Hollingshead</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Gaiety_Theatre,_London" title="Gaiety Theatre, London">Gaiety Theatre</a> in December 1868 she played Florence in <i>On the Cards</i>, a comedy adapted from the French;<sup id="cite_ref-who_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-who-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> she also appeared there as Lady Clara Vere de Vere in <i>Dreams</i> in 1869, before rejoining the Haymarket company, at this point on tour under the management of <a href="/wiki/J._B._Buckstone" class="mw-redirect" title="J. B. Buckstone">J. B. Buckstone</a>. She played <a href="/wiki/Viola_(Twelfth_Night)" title="Viola (Twelfth Night)">Viola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rosalind_(As_You_Like_It)" title="Rosalind (As You Like It)">Rosalind</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_School_for_Scandal" title="The School for Scandal">Lady Teazle</a>, <a href="/wiki/She_Stoops_to_Conquer" title="She Stoops to Conquer">Kate Hardcastle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lydia_Languish" class="mw-redirect" title="Lydia Languish">Lydia Languish</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-who_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-who-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:W._H._Kendal_as_Philamir_and_Madge_Kendal_as_Zeolide_in_W._S._Gilbert%27s_The_Palace_of_Truth.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/W._H._Kendal_as_Philamir_and_Madge_Kendal_as_Zeolide_in_W._S._Gilbert%27s_The_Palace_of_Truth.jpg/240px-W._H._Kendal_as_Philamir_and_Madge_Kendal_as_Zeolide_in_W._S._Gilbert%27s_The_Palace_of_Truth.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="388" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/W._H._Kendal_as_Philamir_and_Madge_Kendal_as_Zeolide_in_W._S._Gilbert%27s_The_Palace_of_Truth.jpg/360px-W._H._Kendal_as_Philamir_and_Madge_Kendal_as_Zeolide_in_W._S._Gilbert%27s_The_Palace_of_Truth.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/W._H._Kendal_as_Philamir_and_Madge_Kendal_as_Zeolide_in_W._S._Gilbert%27s_The_Palace_of_Truth.jpg/480px-W._H._Kendal_as_Philamir_and_Madge_Kendal_as_Zeolide_in_W._S._Gilbert%27s_The_Palace_of_Truth.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1477" data-file-height="2389" /></a><figcaption>The Kendals as Philamir and Zeolide in <a href="/wiki/W._S._Gilbert" title="W. S. Gilbert">W.<span class="nowrap"> </span>S.<span class="nowrap"> </span>Gilbert</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Palace_of_Truth" title="The Palace of Truth">The Palace of Truth</a></i> (1870)</figcaption></figure> <p>When the Haymarket company returned to London, Kendal remained with it; a fellow member was William Hunter Grimston, who acted under the stage name <a href="/wiki/W._H._Kendal" class="mw-redirect" title="W. H. Kendal">W. H. Kendal</a>. The two were married on 7 August 1869. She adopted his stage surname,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and after their marriage they almost always appeared in the same productions.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They remained at the Haymarket until the end of 1874, during which period she played the four parts listed above and seventeen other leading roles.<sup id="cite_ref-who_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-who-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among the new plays in which she starred were a series of "fairy comedies" by <a href="/wiki/W._S._Gilbert" title="W. S. Gilbert">W. S. Gilbert</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Palace_of_Truth" title="The Palace of Truth">The Palace of Truth</a></i> (1870, as Princess Zeolide), <i><a href="/wiki/Pygmalion_and_Galatea_(play)" title="Pygmalion and Galatea (play)">Pygmalion and Galatea</a></i> (1871, as Galatea), and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wicked_World" title="The Wicked World">The Wicked World</a></i> (1873, as Selene); in Gilbert's drama <i><a href="/wiki/Charity_(play)" title="Charity (play)">Charity</a></i> (1874) she played Mrs Van Brugh.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Haymarket company disbanded in late 1874, and the Kendals then set up their own tour beginning in <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a> in November. For six consecutive nights they appeared there in <i><a href="/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet" title="Romeo and Juliet">Romeo and Juliet</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lady_of_Lyons" title="The Lady of Lyons">The Lady of Lyons</a></i>, <i>The Hunchback</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/As_You_Like_It" title="As You Like It">As You Like It</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/East_Lynne" title="East Lynne">East Lynne</a></i>, <i>Uncle's Will</i> and <i>Weeds</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-who_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-who-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sm_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sm-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Back in London in early 1875, they played Kate Hardcastle and Young Marlowe in <i><a href="/wiki/She_Stoops_to_Conquer" title="She Stoops to Conquer">She Stoops to Conquer</a></i> at the <a href="/wiki/Opera_Comique" title="Opera Comique">Opera Comique</a>, and went on to the Gaiety in <i>As You Like It</i>; the reviewer in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Athenaeum_(British_magazine)" title="The Athenaeum (British magazine)">The Athenaeum</a></i> wrote, "One side of the character of Rosalind is shown by Mrs Kendal with admirable clearness and point. So suited to her style are the bantering speeches Shakespeare has put into the mouth of Rosalind, they might almost have been written for her", although the same critic missed "the underlying tenderness that more emotional artists are able to present."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Kendals joined the actor <a href="/wiki/John_Hare_(actor)" title="John Hare (actor)">John Hare</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Court_Theatre" title="Royal Court Theatre">Court Theatre</a> in March 1875, opening in a new comedy, <i>Lady Flora</i>. Hare had a comic character role, and the Kendals played the romantic leads, Flora and Harry Armytage.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She went on to play Mrs Fitzroy in <a href="/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_Aide" title="Charles Hamilton Aide">Hamilton Aide</a>'s <i>A Nine Days' Wonder</i>, and then Lady Hilda in Gilbert's fairy comedy, <i><a href="/wiki/Broken_Hearts" title="Broken Hearts">Broken Hearts</a></i>. She played Susan Hartley (a part she reprised in several later revivals) in <a href="/wiki/John_Palgrave_Simpson" title="John Palgrave Simpson">Palgrave Simpson</a>'s adaptation of a French comedy, called <i>A Scrap of Paper</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-sm_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sm-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 1876 the Kendals moved to the <a href="/wiki/Scala_Theatre" title="Scala Theatre">Prince of Wales's Theatre</a> under the management of the <a href="/wiki/Squire_Bancroft" title="Squire Bancroft">Bancrofts</a>. There Kendal played Lady Ormond in <i>Peril</i>, a carefully anglicised French comedy. She subsequently played Clara Douglas in <i><a href="/wiki/Money_(play)" title="Money (play)">Money</a></i>, Lady Gay Spanker in <i><a href="/wiki/London_Assurance" title="London Assurance">London Assurance</a></i> and Dora in <a href="/wiki/Victorien_Sardou" title="Victorien Sardou">Sardou's</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Diplomacy_(play)" title="Diplomacy (play)">Diplomacy</a></i>, the last of which played for twelve months, in London and on tour. The Kendals returned to the Court, where they revived <i>A Scrap of Paper</i> in January 1879. In February, in her brother T. W. Robertson's adaptation from the French, <i>The Ladies' Battle</i>, the Kendals played the Countess d'Autreval and her suitor, Gustave;<sup id="cite_ref-who_9-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-who-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sm_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sm-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in April she played Kate Greville in <i>The Queen's Shilling</i>, an adaptation of an old French comedy by <a href="/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Bayard" title="Jean-François Bayard">Jean-François Bayard</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-who_9-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-who-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sm_37-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sm-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="St_James's_Theatre:_1879–1888"><span id="St_James.27s_Theatre:_1879.E2.80.931888"></span>St James's Theatre: 1879–1888</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madge_Kendal&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: St James's Theatre: 1879–1888"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kendals-Young-Folks-1883.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Kendals-Young-Folks-1883.png/220px-Kendals-Young-Folks-1883.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="269" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Kendals-Young-Folks-1883.png/330px-Kendals-Young-Folks-1883.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Kendals-Young-Folks-1883.png/440px-Kendals-Young-Folks-1883.png 2x" data-file-width="514" data-file-height="629" /></a><figcaption>The Kendals in <a href="/wiki/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett" title="Frances Hodgson Burnett">Burnett's</a> <i>Young Folks</i> at the <a href="/wiki/St_James%27s_Theatre" title="St James's Theatre">St James's</a>, 1883</figcaption></figure> <p>Since its inception in 1835 the <a href="/wiki/St_James%27s_Theatre" title="St James's Theatre">St James's</a>, in an unfashionable part of the West End, had acquired a reputation as an unlucky theatre, and more money had been lost than made by successive managements.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the invitation of <a href="/wiki/Francis_Needham,_3rd_Earl_of_Kilmorey" title="Francis Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey">Lord Newry</a>, the owner of the freehold of the theatre, the Kendals and John Hare jointly took over the management of the house in 1879.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the first time, the theatre's reputation was steadily defied. The new lessees aimed both to amuse and to improve public taste,<sup id="cite_ref-hkm_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hkm-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in the view of the theatre historian <a href="/wiki/J._P._Wearing" title="J. P. Wearing">J. P. Wearing</a>, they achieved their aim.<sup id="cite_ref-hdnb_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hdnb-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under their management the St James's staged twenty-one plays: seven were new British pieces, eight adaptations of French plays, and the rest were revivals.<sup id="cite_ref-hkm_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hkm-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their first production on 4 October 1879 was a revival of <i>The Queen's Shilling</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-hdnb_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hdnb-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was followed in December by <a href="/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" title="Alfred, Lord Tennyson">Tennyson</a>'s <i>The Falcon</i>, based on the <i><a href="/wiki/Decameron" class="mw-redirect" title="Decameron">Decameron</a></i>, in which the Kendals made considerable successes as Lady Giovanna and the Count.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sm_37-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sm-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wearing regards <i>The Money Spinner</i> (1881) as of particular importance to this period of the theatre's history, being the first of several of <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wing_Pinero" title="Arthur Wing Pinero">A. W. Pinero</a>'s plays staged there by Hare and the Kendals. It was regarded as daringly unconventional and a risky venture, but it caught on with the public. Other plays by Pinero given by the Hare-Kendal management at the St James's were <i>The Squire</i> (1881), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Ironmaster_(novel)" title="The Ironmaster (novel)">The Ironmaster</a></i> (1884), <i>Mayfair</i> (1885) and <i>The Hobby Horse</i> (1886).<sup id="cite_ref-hdnb_47-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hdnb-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/B._C._Stephenson" title="B. C. Stephenson">B. C. Stephenson</a>'s comedy <i>Impulse</i> (1883) was a substantial success and was revived by public demand two months after the end of its first run.<sup id="cite_ref-hkm_43-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hkm-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The reception of a rare excursion into Shakespeare, <i>As You Like It</i> (1885), was mixed. Hare's Touchstone was considered by some to be the worst ever seen,<sup id="cite_ref-hdnb_47-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hdnb-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and W. H. Kendal's Orlando was mildly praised,<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> whereas Kendal's Rosalind, which had always been one of her best-loved roles, was again well regarded.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among the company in these years the actresses included <a href="/wiki/Fanny_Brough" title="Fanny Brough">Fanny Brough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Helen_Maud_Holt" title="Helen Maud Holt">Helen Maud Holt</a> and the young <a href="/wiki/May_Whitty" title="May Whitty">May Whitty</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-hkm_43-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hkm-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> among their male colleagues were <a href="/wiki/George_Alexander_(actor)" title="George Alexander (actor)">George Alexander</a>, <a href="/wiki/Allan_Aynesworth" title="Allan Aynesworth">Allan Aynesworth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Albert_Chevalier" title="Albert Chevalier">Albert Chevalier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Kemble_(actor,_born_1848)" title="Henry Kemble (actor, born 1848)">Henry Kemble</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Terris" class="mw-redirect" title="William Terris">William Terris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brandon_Thomas_(playwright)" title="Brandon Thomas (playwright)">Brandon Thomas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Waller" title="Lewis Waller">Lewis Waller</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hkm_43-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hkm-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Kendals, particularly W. H., became associated in the public mind with the transformation of the theatrical profession from disreputable to respectable. The actor-manager <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Beerbohm_Tree" title="Herbert Beerbohm Tree">Herbert Tree</a> said, "when I look at Kendal I know acting is the profession of a gentleman".<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Kendals imposed a high moral code on the members of their company both on stage and behind the scenes.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another commentator wrote, "Mrs Kendal, one of the best artists of her sex on the London stage, is in private life the epitome of all domestic virtues and graces".<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was dubbed the "matron of the English theatre".<sup id="cite_ref-ervine_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ervine-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also during the St James's years she learned of the case of <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Merrick" title="Joseph Merrick">Joseph Merrick</a>, referred to as the Elephant Man. Although she probably never met him in person, she helped to raise funds and public sympathy for him.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 1887 the Kendals gave a command performance of Gilbert's play <i><a href="/wiki/Sweethearts_(play)" title="Sweethearts (play)">Sweethearts</a></i> for <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a> at <a href="/wiki/Osborne_House" title="Osborne House">Osborne House</a>, the first such entertainment at a royal residence since <a href="/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert, Prince Consort">Prince Albert</a>'s death more than twenty years earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-sm_37-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sm-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="American_tours">American tours</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madge_Kendal&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: American tours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kendals-Ironmaster-1884.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6a/Kendals-Ironmaster-1884.png/220px-Kendals-Ironmaster-1884.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6a/Kendals-Ironmaster-1884.png/330px-Kendals-Ironmaster-1884.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Kendals-Ironmaster-1884.png 2x" data-file-width="365" data-file-height="486" /></a><figcaption>The Kendals in <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wing_Pinero" title="Arthur Wing Pinero">Pinero</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Ironmaster_(novel)" title="The Ironmaster (novel)">The Ironmaster</a></i> as Phillipe Derblay and Claire de Beaupré</figcaption></figure> <p>After a farewell season of revivals of their greatest successes the St James's partnership with Hare came to an end in 1889. The Kendals went on a short provincial tour, and later in the year they set out on their first American appearance, making their debut at the <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Avenue_Theatre" title="Fifth Avenue Theatre">Fifth Avenue Theatre</a> in New York with <i>A Scrap of Paper</i>, in October 1889. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Dramatic_Mirror" class="mw-redirect" title="The New York Dramatic Mirror">The New York Dramatic Mirror</a></i> reported: </p> <dl><dd>Everybody attended the American debut of Mr and Mrs Kendal … that is to say everybody that could get seats or standing room. … The reports of Mrs Kendal's skill as a comedienne were not exaggerated. Her art is as fine as old point lace, and yet it is laid upon a temperament so genuinely sympathetic and so pliant and transitional that there is no sign of effort, no direct exhibition of method in anything she does.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>At the same theatre the Kendals also presented <i>The Ironmaster</i>, to comparable popular and critical approval.<sup id="cite_ref-m2_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-m2-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a brief return to London they set off on a second and more extensive American tour with a larger repertoire. From October 1891 to May 1892 they made what they billed as their third and last American tour, playing in a total of thirty-five cities. They reappeared on the London stage at the <a href="/wiki/Avenue_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Avenue Theatre">Avenue Theatre</a> from January 1893 in a repertory of four plays, and then toured the English provinces, adding to their repertoire <i><a href="/wiki/The_Second_Mrs_Tanqueray" title="The Second Mrs Tanqueray">The Second Mrs Tanqueray</a></i>, which had recently premiered in London starring <a href="/wiki/Mrs_Patrick_Campbell" title="Mrs Patrick Campbell">Mrs Patrick Campbell</a>. The critic <a href="/wiki/William_Archer_(critic)" title="William Archer (critic)">William Archer</a> compared the two actresses in the title role: </p> <dl><dd>What of Mrs Kendal's reading of the part of Paula? It is the work of an accomplished comedienne who has at her command all the resources of her art. Comparisons are odious, and I do not propose to compare Mrs Kendal with Mrs Patrick Campbell except on one point. She certainly puts a greater depth of feeling into the later acts, and on the whole (I should say) she does rightly.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>The Kendals then took the play to the US, where self-appointed guardians of morality condemned it, and audiences flocked to see it.<sup id="cite_ref-m2_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-m2-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the Kendals' fifth and last tour of the US, from September 1894 to May 1895, they visited more than forty cities, presenting <i>The Second Mrs Tanqueray</i>, <i>Lady Clancarty</i>, <i>Still Waters Run Deep</i>, <i>A Scrap of Paper</i>, <i>All for Her</i> and <i>The Ironmaster</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-m2_53-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-m2-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_years">Later years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madge_Kendal&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Later years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Falstaff_and_the_Wives.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Falstaff_and_the_Wives.jpg/220px-Falstaff_and_the_Wives.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Falstaff_and_the_Wives.jpg/330px-Falstaff_and_the_Wives.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Falstaff_and_the_Wives.jpg/440px-Falstaff_and_the_Wives.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4335" data-file-height="6131" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Beerbohm_Tree" title="Herbert Beerbohm Tree">Herbert Tree</a>'s 1902 production of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor" title="The Merry Wives of Windsor">The Merry Wives of Windsor</a></i> with Tree as Falstaff, <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Terry" title="Ellen Terry">Ellen Terry</a> (l.) as Mistress Page and Kendal as Mistress Ford</figcaption></figure> <p>On the Kendals' return to the West End critics and audiences welcomed them back enthusiastically. In June 1896 <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">Bernard Shaw</a> wrote: </p> <dl><dd>Mrs Kendal should really be more cautious than she was at the Garrick on Wednesday night. When you feed a starving castaway you do not give him a full meal at once: you accustom him gradually to food by giving him small doses of soup. Mrs Kendal, forgetting that London playgoers have been starved for years in the matter of acting, inconsiderately gave them more in the first ten minutes than they have had in the last five years, with the result that the poor wretches became hysterical, and vented their applause in sobs and shrieks.<sup id="cite_ref-shaw_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shaw-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>Shaw judged that "her finish of execution, her individuality and charm of style, her appetisingly witty conception of her effects, her mastery of her art and of herself [make] her still supreme among English actresses in high comedy".<sup id="cite_ref-shaw_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shaw-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The biographer Richard Foulkes writes that the supremacy of which Shaw wrote was put to the test when Tree invited Kendal and Ellen Terry to appear together in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor" title="The Merry Wives of Windsor">The Merry Wives of Windsor</a></i>, as Mistress Ford and Mistress Page respectively, at <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Theatre">His Majesty's Theatre</a> in 1902. This was the first time Kendal appeared in a production without W. H. Kendal since their marriage, and Foulkes speculates that her "unwonted exuberance and apparent spontaneity" may have been attributable to that fact. The Kendals continued to appear in popular plays without interruption until 1908, when they both retired, though she briefly emerged from retirement to reprise her Mistress Ford at the coronation gala of 1911 at His Majesty's.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1924 she made her first radio broadcast, opposite <a href="/wiki/Viola_Tree" title="Viola Tree">Viola Tree</a>, in <i>Granny's Juliet</i>, and she later took the title part of her ancestor, <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Siddons" title="Sarah Siddons">Sarah Siddons</a>, in a comedy, <i>A Lesson from Mrs Siddons</i>, together with other descendants of Mrs. Siddons, in a radio broadcast on 28 November 1931 to mark the centenary of Siddons' death<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on the day that Tree took over her role.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Kendals had at least six children.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two died young, and the Kendals became estranged from four others.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">John Gielgud</a> believed the blame lay with the parents, and reports Kendal as reproaching herself shortly before her death.<sup id="cite_ref-jg_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jg-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> W. H. Kendal died in 1917: his widow attributed his death to a broken heart caused by the scandal of their daughter Margaret's divorce.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In retirement, Kendal became active with many theatre charities, becoming president of the actors' retirement home, <a href="/wiki/Denville_Hall" title="Denville Hall">Denville Hall</a>. She was appointed <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire</a> (DBE) in 1926.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-times_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 1927 she presented the first award of the Kendal prize at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Academy_of_Dramatic_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts">Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts</a> to actress Joyce Bland.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kendal was awarded the freedom of her native town, Grimsby, in 1932, the first woman to receive that honour.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-times_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kendal died at her home in <a href="/wiki/Chorleywood" title="Chorleywood">Chorleywood</a>, Hertfordshire, in 1935, aged 87, after a long illness. She was buried at <a href="/wiki/East_Finchley_Cemetery" title="East Finchley Cemetery">St Marylebone cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/East_Finchley" title="East Finchley">East Finchley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-times_63-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_fiction">In fiction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madge_Kendal&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: In fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kendal is a featured character in the 1979 play <i><a href="/wiki/The_Elephant_Man_(play)" title="The Elephant Man (play)">The Elephant Man</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the unrelated 1980 <a href="/wiki/The_Elephant_Man_(film)" title="The Elephant Man (film)">film of the same name</a>, both based on the life of Joseph Merrick. In the film, she was portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Bancroft" title="Anne Bancroft">Anne Bancroft</a>, whom Gielgud (who also appeared in the film) thought beautiful but quite unsuited to the role: "Mrs Kendal would be turning somersaults in her grave".<sup id="cite_ref-jg_61-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jg-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reputation">Reputation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madge_Kendal&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Reputation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gielgud wrote that many people, including <a href="/wiki/James_Agate" title="James Agate">James Agate</a>, the leading critic of the time, "considered Madge Kendal the finest actress in England, a mistress of comedy and domestic drama even surpassing Ellen Terry".<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Gielgud, who was born in 1904, was less sure of her excellence as a Shakespearean actress.)<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Agate rated her above <a href="/wiki/Edith_Evans" title="Edith Evans">Edith Evans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marie_Tempest" title="Marie Tempest">Marie Tempest</a> and in the same league as Ellen Terry, Mrs Patrick Campbell and <a href="/wiki/Sybil_Thorndike" title="Sybil Thorndike">Sybil Thorndike</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Manchester_Guardian" class="mw-redirect" title="The Manchester Guardian">The Manchester Guardian</a>'s</i> obituary was headed "Dame Madge Kendal: The Most Accomplished Actress of Her Generation",<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but an unflattering reference in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a>'s</i> obituary caused protests. The anonymous writer commented: </p> <dl><dd>A very unhistrionic coldness of temperament and a superficiality of thought were the barriers between her acting and any form of greatness; and her rare adventures into the more exacting plays of the modern drama (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Second_Mrs._Tanqueray" class="mw-redirect" title="The Second Mrs. Tanqueray">The Second Mrs. Tanqueray</a></i> was one of them) left the audience cold.<sup id="cite_ref-times_63-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>This drew immediate responses; a colleague, F. Forbes-Robertson, wrote: </p> <dl><dd>Madge Kendal was undoubtedly our greatest comedian; she was the first to interpret her art in a modern spirit – the first to be untheatrical, unsentimental – attainments described by your critic as "coldness of temperament and superficiality of thought". Surely a flagrantly indiscriminate summary of the subtle, sensitive acting of this great comedian. That she failed in the second-rate neurotic drama <i>The Second Mrs Tanqueray</i> was due to her unsuitability for exaggerated histrionics.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p><a href="/wiki/St_John_Ervine" class="mw-redirect" title="St John Ervine">St John Ervine</a> wrote "Madge Kendal was an accomplished but not a great actress", but a "great comedienne". He praised her "verve … extraordinary vitality and her gaiety". Ervine considered that her husband's determination to be respectable hampered her artistic development.<sup id="cite_ref-ervine_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ervine-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 1986 study of great stage actors, <a href="/wiki/Sheridan_Morley" title="Sheridan Morley">Sheridan Morley</a> wrote "Madge Kendal was the greatest comedienne of her generation"; he quoted a contemporary of Kendal: "I defy any other actress, living or dead, to get a laugh out of some of the poor lines with which Mrs Kendal simply rocked the house."<sup id="cite_ref-sm_37-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sm-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes,_references_and_sources"><span id="Notes.2C_references_and_sources"></span>Notes, references and sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madge_Kendal&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes, references and sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madge_Kendal&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Her place of birth was 58 Cleethorpes Road, Grimsby.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some early profiles of Kendal mistakenly take her birthplace to be the adjoining town of <a href="/wiki/Cleethorpes" title="Cleethorpes">Cleethorpes</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-timesobit_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timesobit-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> this error has been corrected in later biographical sketches.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-timesobit_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timesobit-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In a 1900 biography of the Kendals, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Edgar_Pemberton" title="Thomas Edgar Pemberton">T. Edgar Pemberton</a> attributes the decline of such provincial circuits to the effect of the railways, which "destroyed the comparative isolation of the small from the larger towns … local interests became absorbed in the now accessible wonders to be seen in the great world outside".<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The critic <a href="/wiki/William_Archer_(critic)" title="William Archer (critic)">William Archer</a> called him "a second-rate actor ... virulent but vulgar, energetic but decidedly provincial".<sup id="cite_ref-wa_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wa-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kendal recalled in her memoirs that Phelps had not been at rehearsals and was taken aback to find himself playing opposite so young an actress.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An alternative account of the matter was given by Archer, according to whom Phelps was to play opposite Margharetta but thought her too old to play Lady Macbeth, leading to Kendal's substituting for her mother.<sup id="cite_ref-wa_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wa-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The professional change of surname was not immediate. "Madge Robertson" or "Miss Robertson" is reported as a member of the Haymarket company in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Era_(newspaper)" title="The Era (newspaper)">The Era</a></i> and other newspapers well into the 1870s. One headline, from November 1874, refers to "Mr and Mrs Kendal" while the text of the article calls her "Miss Madge Robertson".<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By late 1875 and early 1876 <i>The Era</i> and other papers were referring to "Mrs Kendal" in their reviews.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The theatre had attracted this label as early as 1839: "this very beautiful but most unlucky theatre",<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and it continued throughout most of the 19th century: "an establishment long reputed the most unfortunate in London (1859);<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "this seemingly ill-fated place of amusement" (1875);<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "an unlucky one; its capacity was so small that [it did not pay] even with full houses" (1888);<sup id="cite_ref-hkm_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hkm-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and even after the Hare and Kendal years and into <a href="/wiki/George_Alexander_(actor)" title="George Alexander (actor)">George Alexander</a>'s highly successful tenure between 1891 and 1918 the label was still familiar.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ervine wrote that W.H. Kendal was not in his wife's class as an actor: "he was dull and pompous, both as a player and a private person, a solemn, sententious man whose heavy utterances were received by his wife as the most delicious sallies of wit; and he made a cult of respectability which, although it earned appreciation for him and his far abler wife, made them both disliked in many quarters."<sup id="cite_ref-ervine_51-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ervine-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madge_Kendal&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-dnb-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-13"><sup><i><b>n</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-14"><sup><i><b>o</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dnb_1-15"><sup><i><b>p</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Foulkes, Richard. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-34274">"Kendal, Dame Madge [real name Margaret Shafto Robertson; married name Margaret Shafto Grimston] (1848–1935), actress"</a>, <i>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</i>, Oxford University Press, 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2019 <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(subscription or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public">UK public library membership</a> required)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://garrick.ssl.co.uk/names/SKE016">"Kendal, Madge (Dame)"</a>, <a href="/wiki/Garrick_Club" title="Garrick Club">Garrick Club</a> Collections. Retrieved 9 November 2019</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-timesobit-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-timesobit_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-timesobit_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Dame Madge Kendal", <i>The Times</i>, 16 September 1935, p. 14</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wright, p. 261</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free 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.id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1">"Dame Madge Kendal". <i><a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Post_and_Leeds_Intelligencer" 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"Dame Madge Kendal", <i>The Times</i>, 20 September 1935, p. 17</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sources">Sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madge_Kendal&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFCroall2008" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Croall" title="Jonathan Croall">Croall, Jonathan</a> (2008). <i>Sybil Thorndike</i>. London: Haus. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-905791-92-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-905791-92-7"><bdi>978-1-905791-92-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sybil+Thorndike&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Haus&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-1-905791-92-7&rft.aulast=Croall&rft.aufirst=Jonathan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMadge+Kendal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFDuncan1964" class="citation book cs1">Duncan, Barry (1964). <i>St James's Theatre, Its Strange and Complete History, 1835–1857</i>. London: Barrie and Rockliff. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/979694996">979694996</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=St+James%27s+Theatre%2C+Its+Strange+and+Complete+History%2C+1835%E2%80%931857&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Barrie+and+Rockliff&rft.date=1964&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F979694996&rft.aulast=Duncan&rft.aufirst=Barry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMadge+Kendal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFGielgud1979" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">Gielgud, John</a> (1979). <i>An Actor and His Time</i>. London: Sidgwick and Jackson. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-283-98573-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-283-98573-7"><bdi>978-0-283-98573-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+Actor+and+His+Time&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Sidgwick+and+Jackson&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=978-0-283-98573-7&rft.aulast=Gielgud&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMadge+Kendal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFGielgud2000" class="citation book cs1">Gielgud, John (2000). <i>Gielgud on Gielgud</i>. London: Hodder and Stoughton. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-340-79502-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-340-79502-6"><bdi>978-0-340-79502-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Gielgud+on+Gielgud&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Hodder+and+Stoughton&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-340-79502-6&rft.aulast=Gielgud&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMadge+Kendal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKendal1933" class="citation book cs1">Kendal, Madge (1933). Rudolph De Cordova (ed.). <i>Dame Madge Kendal by Herself</i>. London: John Murray. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/2325826">2325826</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dame+Madge+Kendal+by+Herself&rft.place=London&rft.pub=John+Murray&rft.date=1933&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F2325826&rft.aulast=Kendal&rft.aufirst=Madge&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMadge+Kendal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMorley1986" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Sheridan_Morley" title="Sheridan Morley">Morley, Sheridan</a> (1986). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/greatstagestarsd0000morl"><i>The Great Stage Stars</i></a></span>. London: Angus & Robertson. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8160-1401-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8160-1401-9"><bdi>978-0-8160-1401-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Great+Stage+Stars&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Angus+%26+Robertson&rft.date=1986&rft.isbn=978-0-8160-1401-9&rft.aulast=Morley&rft.aufirst=Sheridan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgreatstagestarsd0000morl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMadge+Kendal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFParker1922" class="citation book cs1">Parker, John, ed. (1922). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_qyk_AQAAMAAJ/page/n497"><i>Who's Who in the Theatre</i></a> (fourth ed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/473894893">473894893</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Who%27s+Who+in+the+Theatre&rft.place=London&rft.edition=fourth&rft.pub=Sir+Isaac+Pitman+and+Sons&rft.date=1922&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F473894893&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbub_gb_qyk_AQAAMAAJ%2Fpage%2Fn497&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMadge+Kendal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFPemberton1900" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Edgar_Pemberton" title="Thomas Edgar Pemberton">Pemberton, T. Edgar</a> (1900). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/kendalsbiography00pembuoft"><i>The Kendals: A Biography</i></a>. London: Pearson. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/684413482">684413482</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Kendals%3A+A+Biography&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Pearson&rft.date=1900&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F684413482&rft.aulast=Pemberton&rft.aufirst=T.+Edgar&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fkendalsbiography00pembuoft&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMadge+Kendal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFShaw1928" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">Shaw, Bernard</a> (1928). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/DramaticOpinionsAndEssaysVolume2/page/n15"><i>Dramatic Opinions and Essays</i></a>. New York: Brentano. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/786136429">786136429</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dramatic+Opinions+and+Essays&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Brentano&rft.date=1928&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F786136429&rft.aulast=Shaw&rft.aufirst=Bernard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2FDramaticOpinionsAndEssaysVolume2%2Fpage%2Fn15&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMadge+Kendal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFStedman1996" class="citation book cs1">Stedman, Jane (1996). <i>W. S. Gilbert, A Classic Victorian and His Theatre</i>. 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