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Munden, Joseph Shepherd
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND
Munden, Joseph Shepherd
(1758–1832), English comedian, who after several years' hard work in the provinces joined the company at Covent Garden in 1790. His first outstanding success was as Old Dornton in the initial production of Holcroft's The Road to Ruin (1792). He was the favourite actor of Charles Lamb , who left an admirable description of him, and seems to have been particularly admired in drunken scenes, for which he invented new ‘business’ at every performance. The broadness of his acting would scarcely be conceivable today and even in his own time he was ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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