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The cap. A Satiric poem. Including most of the dramatic writers of the present day. By Peter Pindar, Esq. With notes, illustrative of His Royal Highness the Duke of York. Lord Mulgrave, Doctor Moore, Mr. Cumberland, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Jephson, Mr. Greathead. Lady Wallace, Mrs. Piozzi, Miss Burney, Mrs. Gooch, Mrs. Inchbald, Mrs. Cowley, Miss Hughes, Mrs. Robinson, Lord Mountmorres, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. O'Keefe, Mr. Holcroft, Mr. Boaden, Mr. Morton, Mr. Cobb, Mr. I. P. Kemble, Mr. Harris, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Dives, Mr. Colman, Mr. Brewer, Mr. Jerningham, Major Scott, Mr. Berrington, Mr. Pye, Mr. Watson, Mr. Murphy. Mr. M. P. Andrews, Mr. Hoare, Mr. Topham, Mr. Dibdin, Mr. Hurlstone, Mr. H. Bate Dudley, Mr. J. Taylor, Mr. Woodfall, Mr. Litchfield, Rev. Mr. Rose, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Oulton, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Waldron, Mr. Cross, Mr. Holman, Mr. Benson, Mr. H. Siddons, Mr. Hook, Mr. Macready, Mr. Arnold, Mr. Birch, Mr. Walter, Junr. Jew King, &c. &c. Dedicated to Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq.
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.Date: [1795]- Books
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The critic; or a tragedy rehearsed: a new dramatic piece in three acts; as it is performed by His Majesty's servants, with the greatest applause. By the author of The duenna.
Pottinger, Israel, active 1759-1761.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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The dramatic works of Mr. Philip Massinger, compleat. In four volumes. Revised, corrected, and all the various editions collated, by Mr. Coxeter. With notes critical and explanatory, by the editor, and by various authors.
Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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[Bell's edition of Shakespeare's plays, as they are now performed at the Theatres Royal in London; regulated from the prompt books ... with notes critical and illustrative; by the authors of the Dramatic censor. ...
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: 1773-76]- Books
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The London register, or Notes of the present times.
Date: <1762>- Books
The critic, or, Tragedy rehearsed, a dramatic piece / by R.B. Sheridan. With prefatory remarks ... faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatres royal. By W. Oxberry, comedian.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816Date: 1820- Books
Notes by the way : with memoirs of Joseph Knight, F.S.A., dramatic critic and editor of "Notes and queries", 1883-1907, and the Rev. Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth, F.S.A., editor of the Ballad Society's publications / by John Collins Francis.
Francis, John Collins, 1838-1916.Date: 1909- Books
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Othello. A tragedy, by Shakespeare, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Regulated from the prompt-book, With permission of the Managers. by Mr. Hopkins, Prompter. An introduction, and notes critical and illustrative, are added by the authors of The dramatic censor.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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A companion to the theatre: or, A View of our most celebrated Dramatic Pieces: In which the Plan, Characters and Incidents of each are particularly explained. Interspersed with Remarks Historical, Critical and Moral. To which is added, (not in any other Edition) A brief Account of the Lives and Writings of the English Dramatic Poets; with a List of all their Plays, from the Year 1538, to the Year 1750. Together with The Lives of the principal actors, as well as Poets.
Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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The merry wives of Windsor. A comedy, by Shakespeare. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Regulated from the prompt-book, With permission of the managers, by Mr. Hopkins, prompter. An introduction, and notes critical and illustrative, are added by the authors of the Dramatic censor.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark a tragedy, by Shakespeare as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. Regulated from the prompt-book, With Permission of the Managers, by Mr. Younger, prompter. An introduction, and notes Critical and Illustrative, are added by the authors of the Dramatic censor.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The playhouse pocket-companion, or theatrical vade-mecum: containing, I. A Catalogue of all the dramatic authors who have written for the English Stage, with a List of their works, shewing the dates of representation or publication. II. A Catalogue of anonymous pieces. III. An Index of Plays and Authors. In a Method entirely new, Whereby the author of any dramatic performance, and the time of its appearance, may be readily discovered on Inspection. To which is prefixed, A Critical History of the English Stage from its Origin to the present Time; With an Enquiry into the Causes of the Decline of Dramatic Poetry in England.
Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Terence's Comedys, Translated into English, with critical and explanatory notes: to which is prefixed A dissertation on the life and writings of Terence, containing An enquiry into the rise and progress of dramatic poetry in Greece and Rome, with remarks on the comic measure. The second edition. By Mr. Cooke.
Terence.Date: 1748- Books
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The theatrical review: for the year 1757, and beginning of 1758. Containing critical remarks on the principal performers of both the theatres. Together with observations on the dramatic pieces, new, or revived; that have been Performed at either House within that Period. To which is added, A Scale of the Comparative Merit of the above Performers.
Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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Modernism's mythic pose : gender, genre, solo performance / Carrie J. Preston.
Preston, Carrie JDate: [2011], ©2011- Books
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Biographia dramatica, or, a companion to the playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers, from the Commencement of our Theatrical Exhibitions; amongst whom are some of the most celebrated Actors. Also An Alphabetical Account of their Works, the Dates when printed, and occasional Observations on their Merits. Together with An Introductory View of the Rise and Progress of the British Stage. By David Erskine Baker, Esq. ...
Baker, David Erskine, 1730-1767.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
Ribera : art of violence / Edward Payne and Xavier Bray.
Payne, Edward (Art museum curator)Date: 2018- Books
Disease, diagnosis, and cure on the early modern stage / edited by Stephanie Moss and Kaara L. Peterson.
Date: [2004], ©2004- Books
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Biographia dramatica, or, a companion to the playhouse: containing historical and critical memoirs, and original anecdotes, of British and Irish dramatic writers, from the Commencement of our Theatrical Exhibitions; amongst whom are some of the most celebrated Actors. Also An Alphabetical Account of their Works, the Dates when printed, and occasional Observations on their Merits. Together with an introductory view of the rise and progress of the British stage. By David Erskine Baker, Esq A new edition. Carefully corrected; greatly enlarged; and continued from 1764 to 1782: ...
Baker, David Erskine, 1730-1767.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The companion to the play-house: or, an historical account of all the dramatic writers (and their works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions, down to the present year 1764. Composed in the form of a dictionary, For the more readily turning to any particular Author, or Performance. In Two Volumes. ... Contains, A Critical and Historical Account of every Tragedy, Comedy, Farce, &c. in the English Language. The respective Merits of each Piece; and of the Actors who performed the principal Characters, are particularly examined and pointed out. ... Contains, The Lives and Productions of every Dramatic Writer for the English or Irish Theatres, including not only all those Memoirs that have been formerly writeen, but also a great Number of new Lives and curious Anecdotes never before communicated to the Public. - Also the Lives of our most celebrated Actors, who were likewise Authors of any Theatrical Composition from Shakespear and Johnson, down to the present Times.
Baker, David Erskine, 1730-1767.Date: 1764- Pictures
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Scenes in the trial of Percy Lefroy Mapleton at Maidstone Assizes for murder of Isaac Gold on the London-Brighton railway. Wood engraving, 1881.
Date: [1881]Reference: 43265i- Books
Who owns America's past? : the Smithsonian and the problem of history / Robert C. Post.
Post, Robert C.Date: 2013- Books
William James : psychical research and the challenge of modernity / Krister Dylan Knapp.
Knapp, Krister DylanDate: [2017]- Books
Renaissance food from Rabelais to Shakespeare : culinary readings and culinary histories / edited by Joan Fitzpatrick.
Date: [2010], ©2010- Archives and manuscripts
Yates, Edmund Hodgson (1831-1894)
Yates, Edmund, (1831-1894)Date: 1892-1894Reference: MS.8007/75Part of: Miscellany: British, mainly 19th-20th centuries