Mrs. Glover, the best comic actress then upon the stage,
to appear as the weeping widowed AndromacheJ^ She
had first essayed the part of the Nurse in " Romeo and
Juliet" in 1822, when her daughter Phillis made "her
first attempt on any stage" in the character oi Julief
to the Romeo of Edmund Kean : she was playing Nurse
again in 1829, when Charles Kean was the Romeo^ and
the Juliet Miss F. H. Kelly. She had appeared as>
Mrs, Ford in " The Merry Wives of Windsor " to the
Falstaff of Cooke and the Ford of John Kemble ; she
had personated Violante in the "Wonder" to Charles
Kemble's Bon Felix, and Tilburina in " The Critic " to
Elliston's Puff and Dowton's Sir Fretful She was
Lady Allworth to Edmund Kean's Sir Giles Overreach,
when his terrible intensity affected her so powerfully that
she fainted away — "not at all from flattery, but from
emotion." Indeed, Mrs. Glover's last performances in
tragedy were in support of Kean. She was his Lady
Macbeth, Volu?nnia, Goneril, Emilia ; the Queen to his.
Richard, the Elvira to his Rolla, She appeared as
Paulina in " The Winter's Tale " to Macready's Leontes
in 1823; she was the original Mrs, Subtle in "Paul
Pry" in 1825. On one of her benefit nights she played



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