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The children of Thespis. A poem. By Anthony Pasquin, Esq. Part the second.
Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818.Date: 1788
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The pin basket. To the children of Thespis. A satire. By Anthony Pasquin, A. With notes biographical, critical, and explanatory. ... Dedicated to the countess of Jersey.
Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818.Date: 1796
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The drama, a poem.
Downman, Hugh, 1740-1809.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]
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The children of Thespis. A poem. Part first.
Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
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The new Rosciad, in the manner of Churchill: Containing a judicious, humourous and critical description of our present dramatic characters. Dedicated to George Colman, Esq.
Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
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The pin-Basket to the children of Thespis. With notes historical, critical, and biographical. By John Williams, whose public appellation is Anthony Pasquin.
Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818.Date: 1797
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The British hero and ignoble poltron contrasted: or, the principal actors in the siege and defence of Fort St. Philip, and the Mediterranean Expedition, characteriz'd. With some strictures on the French proceedings in America. An ode. With historical notes, explaining and verifying the most remarkable Transactions and Occurrences that happened during the Continuance of this Important Siege.
Date: 1756
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Talma, a biography of an actor / by Herbert F. Collins.
Collins, Herbert F.Date: 1964
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Declamation; or, an essay on the art of speaking in public; with an historical and critical account of the theatres in Europe. Viz. Italian, Spanish, French, English, Dutch, Flemish, And German theatres. With a review of the manner, person, and character of actors. With Curious Dissertations on the drama; and a Comparison of the Dramas of Ancient and Modern. By Lewis Riccoboni of the Italian Theatre at Paris. Illustrated with notes by the author and translator.
Riccoboni, Luigi, 1676-1753.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]
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Catalogue of the interesting collection of autograph letters, of the late George Morgan Smith, esq., etc. etc. : in which will be found many rare and curious specimens of a highly interesting character, English and foreign sovereigns and nobles, statesmen, commanders, divines, lawyers, medical men, poets, artists, musicians, actors : a collection of rare play bills, etc. : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson ... at their Great Room, 191, Piccadilly, on Monday, July 9th, 1849, and following days, at one o'clock most punctually.
Puttick and Simpson.Date: 1849
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Doctors tell secrets of Franco's slow death / by Tim Brown.
Brown, Tim (Actor)Date: 1994
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Crosby's pocket companion to the playhouses. Being the lives of all the principal London performers. To be re-printed at the Commencement of each Winter Season, with the Addition of those New Performers, who may hereafter be engaged in the Theatres of Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and the Haymarket. To which are subjoined, particulars of the life of Mr. Dibdin. Dedicated to Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq.
Crosby, B. (Benjamin).Date: 1796
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Letters and poems, by the late Mr. John Henderson. With anecdotes of his life, by John Ireland.
Henderson, John, 1747-1785.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
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Letters and poems, by the late Mr. John Henderson. With anecdotes of his life, by John Ireland.
Henderson, John, 1747-1785.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
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Catalogue of a valuable and interesting assemblage of autograph letters, historical documents and records, illustrative of English history : to which are added some others of much interest, collected by the Very Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Milles, Dean of Exeter, and President of the Antiquarian Society, deceased 1784 : also autograph letters of celebrated musicians and composers, vocalists, actors, actresses, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby, at his house, 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Tuesday, April 25th, 1843, at one o'clock, precisely.
Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805-1861.Date: 1843
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Strolabella a comical romance, containing an humourous and diverting history of a company of stroling [sic] players, with an account of the origin, progress, and declension of the vagrantes, or itinerant actors; ... Compiled by a celebrated Hottentot philosopher, ... Brought from the Cape of Good Hope by a Dutch poet, and found in the library of Alexander the copper-smith, now faithfully translated by his pupil and successor Richard the black-smith.
Bulkeley, Richard, Sir, 1644-1710.Date: 1740
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The actor: a treatise on the art of playing. Interspersed with theatrical anecdotes, critical remarks on plays, and occasional observations on audiences.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: MDCCL. [1750]
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A Key to the times. In English and French. Containing I. An introduction to the whole, with some considerations on the question, whether Great Britain ought in justice or prudence at this time to become a party in the quarrel between France and the Emperor? II. The characters of some of the greatest men who are actors in the present scene of affairs in Europe. III. A dream, or vision. IV. Stanislaus, a poem in Latin and English.
Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]
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Reassembling the social : an introduction to actor-network-theory / Bruno Latour.
Latour, BrunoDate: 2005
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[The wonderful discouerie of the vvitchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters of Ioan Flower neere Beuer Castle: executed at Lincolne, March 11. 1618 : Who were specially arraigned and condemned before Sir Henry Hobart, and Sir Edward Bromley, iudges of assise, for confessing themselues actors in the destruction of Henry L. Rosse, with their damnable practises against others the children of the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland. Together with the seuerall examinations and confessions of Anne Baker, Ioan Willimot, and Ellen Greene, witches in Leicestershire].
Date: [1619]
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The wonderful discouerie of the vvitchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters of Ioan Flower neere Beuer Castle: executed at Lincolne, March 11. 1618 : Who were specially arraigned and condemned before Sir Henry Hobart, and Sir Edward Bromley, iudges of assise, for confessing themselues actors in the destruction of Henry L. Rosse, with their damnable practises against others the children of the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland. Together with the seuerall examinations and confessions of Anne Baker, Ioan Willimot, and Ellen Greene, witches in Leicestershire.
Date: 1619
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Brand's lunacy case : a full report of this most interesting and extraordinary investigation including copious animadversions on the principal actors in this drama : to which are added may [i.e. many] other important and highly affecting cases, together with the history of the horrors practised in private mad-houses, and the frightful power delegated to the mad-doctors of the 19th century, with the number of pauper lunatics in England : the late Lord Chancellor, and Mr. Sugden : the author's reply to Councellor [sic] Austen : extracts from Observations on insanity, comprising the symptoms & treatment of that malady / by Charles Dunne.
Dunne, Charles.Date: 1831
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Roscius anglicanus, or An historical review of the stage: After in had been suppres'd by means of the late unhappy civlil war, begun in 1641, till the time of King Charles the IIs. Restoration in May 1660. Giving an account of its rise again; of the time and places the governours of both the companies first erected their theatres. The names of the principal actors and actresses, who perform'd in the chiefest plays in each house. With the names of the most taking plays; and modern poets. For the space of 46 years, and during the reign of Three Kings, and pare of our present sovereign Lady Queen Anne, from 1660, to 1706.
Downes, John, active 1661-1719.Date: 1708
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Starring Madame Modjeska : on tour in Poland and America / Beth Holmgren.
Holmgren, Beth, 1955-Date: [2012], ©2012
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A Narrative of the barbarous and unheard of murder of Mr. John Hayes, by Catherine his wife, Thomas Billings, and Thomas Wood, in the 1st of March at night. Wherein every minute circumstance attending that horrid affair, and the wonderful providence of God in the discovery of the actors therein, are faithfully and impartially related. Together with the examinations and consessions of the said Thomas Billings and Thomas Wood before several of His Majesty's justices of the peace. As also the copy of a fictitious letter that Catherine Hayes sent, as from her husband, to his mother in Worcestershire after his death; and the mother's answer thereto: with some account of the wicked life and conversation of the said Catherine, and likewise of those of Thomas Billings and Thomas Wood. To which are prefix'd, their true and exact effigies, drawn from the life, and curiously engraved on copper. Published with the approbation of the relations and friends of the said Mr. John Hayes.
Date: 1726