KEAN, CHARLES ,lolls ( 1811-68). A tinted English actor. the second sun of Edmund Kean lie was born at Waterford, uary IS, 1811, and educated at Eton. He adopted the stage against his father's desire, making his cbquit at Drury Lane in 1827 as Young Norval in Douglas. In the provinces and in America, which he first visited in 1830, he was popular before he achieved a reputation in London. The only time win n he played with his father in Lon don, it is said, was at the latter's last appearance in 1833, when Charles was Ingo to his father's Othello. He married in 1842 'Miss Ellen Tree, and till his death in 1868 they acted together. llis management of the Prinvess's Theatre (1850 59) was distinguished for the splendor of some ot his p•oductimis, the most studious care being expended on scenery and dress. Byron's Santa 5utpalus, produced in 1853, was perhaps the most striking of these 'restm•ations,' as they were called. Kean was also direetor of the royal the
atricals. Ilk Hamlet. was his greatest Shake spearean part. Ile was at his best in such pieces as The •ifc's Scerct, The Corsican Brothers, and especially in Louis XI. hue of his latest under takings was a tour around the world with his wife, upon which he started in 1863. lle died at Chelsea. .January 22, 1868. Consult: Cole. The Life and 7'heatriral Times of Charles Kean (Lon don, 1859) : Cook. flours with the Players, Vol. ii.
1SS ) Our Recent Actors (ib., 1890) : Hutton, "Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean." in .1ctors and Jetresses of (Bent Britain and the United States, ed. by Matthews and Hut ton, vol. iv. (New 1886) ; Scott, The Drama of Yesterday and To-Day (London. 1899).