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A complete history of the English stage. ... by Mr. Dibdin. ...
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.Date: [1800]- Books
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The evil and danger of stage-plays: shewing their natural tendency to destroy religion, and introduce a general corruption of manners; in almost two thousand instances, taken from the plays of the two last years, against all the Methods lately used for their Reformation. By Arthur Bedford, M. A. Chaplain to his Grace Wriothesly Duke of Bedford; and Vicar of Temple in the City of Bristol.
Bedford, Arthur, 1668-1745.Date: 1706- Books
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The theatre, by Sir Richard Steele; to which are added, The anti-theatre; the character of Sir John Edgar; Steele's case with the Lord Chamberlain the Crisis of Property, with the Sequel, Two Pasquins, &c. &c. Illustrated with literary and historical anecdotes by John Nichols.
Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- 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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The stage the high road to hell: being an essay on the pernicious nature of theatrical entertainments; shewing them to be at once inconsistent with religion, and subversive of morality. ...
Date: [1767]- Books
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A farther vindication of the short view of the profaneness and immorality of the English stage, in which the objections of a late book, entituled, A defence of plays, are consider'd. By Jeremy Collier, M.A.
Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.Date: 1708- Books
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, dedicated, with permission, to the most noble the Marquis of Salisbury, A complete history of the English stage Interspersed with a comparative and comprehensive review of the Asiatic, the Grecian, the Roman, the Spanish, the Italian, the Portugese, the German, the French, and Other Theatres from their Origin to the Present Time; and involving Biographical Tracts and Anecdotes, instructive and amusing, concerning a prodigious number of Authors, Composers, Painters, Actors, Singers, and Patrons of Dramatic Productions in all Countries; with an intention to place the Stage in General, and the English Stage in Particular, in an eligible point of view, as an object of national consequence, by considering it as a criterion of taste and a regulator of human manners. The whole written, with the assistance of interesting documents, collected in the course of Five and Thirty Years, by Mr. Dibdin.
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.Date: 1796?]- Books
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The present state of the stage in Great-Britain and Ireland. And the theatrical characters of the principal performers, in both kingdoms, impartially considered.
Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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The history of the mimes and pantomimes, with An Historical Account of several Performers in Dancing, living in the Time of the Roman Emperors. To which will be added, A List of the Modern Entertainments that have been exhibited on the English Stage, either in Imitation of the ancient Pantomimes, or after the Manner of the Modern Italians; When and where first Performed, and by whom Composed. By John Weaver, Dancing-Master.
Weaver, John, 1673-1760.Date: 1728- Books
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Prologue and epilogue, spoken at the opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane 1747.
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.Date: M,DCC,XLVII. [1747]- Books
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The secret history of the green room: containing authentic and entertaining memoirs of the actors and actresses in the three Theatres Royal. ... . - Drury-Lane.
Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833.Date: 1792- Books
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Reflections on a favourite amusement.
Law, William, 1686-1761.Date: 1756- Books
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The literary museum; or, a selection of scarce old tracts: Viz. 1. The right Renoumyde Ladies, translated from Boccace. 2. A delicate Diet for dainty-mouthed Droonkardes, by Gascoyne. 3. Poems of Spenser, not in any Edition. 4. Peacham's Period of Mourning, in Six Visions. 5. Specimen of a New Edition of Ben Jonson. 6. Ceremonies used for healing the King's Evil, consecrating Cramp Rings, &c. 7. On Lydgate's Travelling into France. 8. The New Arcadia, by Belcher. 9. Downe's Roscius Anglicus; or, Theatrical History, &c. &c.
Date: [1792]- Books
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The theatre, by Sir Richard Steele; to which are added, The Anti-Theatre; the character of Sir John Edgar; Steele's case with the Lord Chamberlain; the Crisis of Property, with the Sequel, Two Pasquins, &c. &c. Illustrated with literary and historical anecdotes by John Nichols.
Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- 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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Royal and Royalty Theatres. Letter to Phillips Glover, Esq. of Wispington, in Lincolnshire; in a dedication to the burletta of Hero and Leander, now performing, with the most distinguished applause, at the Royalty Theatre, in Goodman's Fields.
Jackman, Isaac, active 1776-1795.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The present state of the stage in Great-Britain and Ireland. And the theatrical characters of the principal performers, in both kingdoms, impartially considered.
Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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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