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An apology for the life of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, ... Commonly known throughout the West of England, by the title of King of the beggars; ... The whole taken from his own mouth.
Date: [1749]- Books
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Tentative transgressions : homosexuality, AIDS, and the theater in Brazil / Severino J. Albuquerque.
Albuquerque, Severino João MedeirosDate: [2004], ©2004- Books
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Music hall : the business of pleasure / edited by Peter Bailey.
Date: 1986- Books
Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750 : literary mountebanks and performing quacks / M.A. Katritzky.
Katritzky, M. A.Date: [2007], ©2007- 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- Books
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Hard times : the adult musical in 1970s New York City / Elizabeth L. Wollman.
Wollman, Elizabeth L., 1969-Date: [2013], ©2013- Books
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See and seem blind: or, A critical dissertation on the publick diversions, &c. Of persons and things, and things and persons, and what not. In a letter from the Right Honourable the Lord B----- to A--- H---, Esq;
Lord B-----.Date: [1732]- Books
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Strategies of political theatre : post-War British playwrights / Michael Patterson.
Patterson, MichaelDate: [2003], ©2003- Books
Performing neurology : the dramaturgy of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot / Jonathan W. Marshall.
Marshall, Jonathan W., 1970-Date: [2016]- Books
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The Censor.
Date: [1717]- Books
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Dramatic micellanies [sic]: consisting of critical observations on several plays of Shakspeare: with a review of his principal characters, and those of various eminent writers, as represented by Mr. Garrick, and other celebrated comedians. ... By Thomas Davies, ... In three volumes. ...
Davies, Thomas, 1713-1785.Date: 1783-1784- Books
Separate theaters : Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean stage / Ken Jackson.
Jackson, Kenneth S., 1965-Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
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The touch-Stone: or, historical, critical, political, philosophical, and theological essays on the reigning diversions of the town. Design'd for the Improvement of all Authors, Spectators, and Actors of Operas, Plays, and Masquerades. In which every thing antique, or modern, relating to Musick, Poetry, Dancing, Pantomimes, Chorusses, Cat-Calls, Audiences, Judges, Criticks, Balls, Ridottos, Assemblies, New Oratory, Circus, Bear-Garden, Gladiators, Prize-Fighters, Italian Strolers, Mountebank Stages, Cock-Pits, Puppet-Shews, Fairs, and Publick Auctions, is occasionally handled. By a person of some taste and some quality. With a preface, giving an account of the author and the work.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Books
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The Gentleman.
Date: 1787]- 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
The ideas, identity and art of Daniel Spoerri : contingencies and encounters of an 'artistic animator' / Leda Cempellin (South Dakota State University).
Cempellin, Leda, 1973-Date: [2017]- Books
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Shakespearean negotiations : the circulation of social energy in Renaissance England / Stephen Greenblatt.
Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-Date: [1988], ©1988- 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
Acts of intervention : performance, gay culture, and AIDS / David Román.
Román, David, 1959-Date: [1998]- Books
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Tyranny triumphant! and liberty lost; the muses run mad; Apollo struck dumb; and all Covent-Garden confounded. Or, historical, critical, and prophetical remarks on the famous cartel lately agreed on by the masters of the two theatres. In a letter to a friend in the country. To which is added, An essay towards a farce on the same subject. By Patrick Fitz-Crambo, Esq; Secretary to the minor poets.
Fitz-Crambo, Patrick.Date: [1743]- Books
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The politics of Irish drama : plays in context from Boucicault to Friel / Nicholas Grene.
Grene, NicholasDate: [1999], ©1999- Books
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The literary museum; or, ancient and modern repository. Comprising scarce and curious tracts, poetry, biography and criticism.
Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
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An apology for the life of Colley Cibber, comedian, and late patentee of the Theatre-Royal. With an historical view of the stage during his own time. Written by himself. The third edition. To which is now added, a short account of the rise and progress of the English stage: also, A dialogue on old plays, and old players.
Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757.Date: 1750- Books
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The London register, or Notes of the present times.
Date: <1762>- Books
Increase and multiply : governing cultural reproduction in early modern England / David Glimp.
Glimp, DavidDate: [2003]