A short article on a lively subject: Geltruda Rossi, Sarah Siddons, and Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth à la Fuseli by Burden, M

“…In the 1784-85 London season, there was a conjunction between Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and three of the most thrilling artists of the eighteenth century: the dancer, Geltruda Rossi; the actress, Sarah Siddons; and the artist, Henry Fuseli. They were thrown into a figurative proximity when a commentator on Rossi’s performance wrote in the Morning Herald and Daily Advertiser: Madame Rossi, in Lady Macbeth, impresses one more with the recollection of Fusili’s [sic] painting, than of Mrs Siddons’s representation – indeed comparison would be doing an injustice to our critical and admired English performer. …”

Made in the media: actresses, celebrity and the periodical press in the late eighteenth century by Senkiw, AL

“…Through a combination of literary and cultural analysis, this thesis examines the ‘media texts’ that circulated in the periodical press about three contemporaneous actresses: Sarah Siddons, Elizabeth Farren and Mary Wells.</p> <p>Three central questions drive this thesis. …”

The Brady collection and the mediation of eighteenth-century women's performance in theatrical ephemera by Noble, K

“…The fourth and final chapter, homing in closely on the Brady Collection, uses a case study of a scrapbook of Sarah Siddons to explicate the mediatory power of the theatrical archive itself. …”