A key to the drama; or, memoirs, intrigues, and atchievements, of personages, who have been chosen by the most celebrated poets, as the fittest characters for theatrical representations. Calculated To gratify the Public, not only with a Circumstantial History of the Persons, and to make the Stage thereby more intelligible and interesting to Those who frequent it; but that Others, who ... a Variety of Causes, have it not in their Power to enjoy the Representation, may nevertheless puruse the Plays with a higher Relish, and greater perspicuity. Vol. I. Containing the life, Character, and secret History of Macbeth. By a gentleman, no professed author but a lover of history, and of the theatre.

Date:

1768