A History of English Drama 1660-1900

A History of English Drama 1660-1900

Author: Allardyce Nicoll

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-06-25

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780521109307

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Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.


A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3, Cabanel to Cory

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3, Cabanel to Cory

Author: Philip H. Highfill

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9780809306923

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Volumes three and four of this monumen­tal work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the Cibbers--Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Maria--Kitty Clive, and Charlotte Charke, George Colman, the Elder, and the Younger, William Davenant, and De Loutherboug. But here also are full entries for dozens of important secondary figures and of minor ones whose stories have never been told, as well as a census (and at least a few recoverable facts) for even the most inconsiderable performers and servants of the theatres. As in the previous volumes in this dis­tinguished series, the accompanying illus­trations include at least one picture of each subject for whom a portrait exists.