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1.
The development of the English playhouse
Author
Leacroft, Richard
Published
Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press [1973]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1973 L469
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> NA6840 G7 L43 (LC)
Format
Books
2.
Censorship in England
Author
Fowell, Frank
Published
London, F. Palmer [1913]
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> Haf24 G5 913f
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1913 F82
Format
Books
3.
Theatre in Ireland
Author
Mac Liammóir, Micheál, 1899-1978
Published
Dublin, Published for the Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland by C.O Lochlainn, 1950.
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> Hag30 I2 950M
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 648 950M
Format
Books
4.
Four centuries of theater design
Author
Yale University. Art Gallery
Published
[New Haven] Yale University Art Gallery [1964]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 715 Y16 964T
Format
Books
5.
Shakespeare's theatre and the dramatic tradition
Author
Wright, Louis B. (Louis Booker), 1899-1984
Published
[S.l.] : University Press of Virginia, c1958, 1972 printing.
Location
LSF - Haas Arts Special Collections (Non-Circulating) >> Overbrk PN2585 W72 1972 (LC)
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 63 974 F711 3
Format
Books
6.
The Cambridge illustrated history of British theatre
Author
Trussler, Simon
Published
Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Reference (Non-Circulating) >> PN2581 .T78 1994
Format
Books
7.
The same only different: five generations of a great theatre family
Author
Webster, Margaret, 1905-1972
Published
London, Gollanez, 1969.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1969 W39
Format
Books
8.
A history of the theatres of London, containing an annual register of new pieces ... : being a continuation of Victor's & Oulton's histories, from...1795 to 1817 inclusive
Author
Oulton, Walley Chamberlain, 1770?-1820?
Published
London : C. Chapple ... and W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1818.
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> Hag26 818Pb
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1818 Ou5
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Books
9.
The history of the theatres of London and Dublin, from the year 1730 to the present time. To which is added, an annual register of all the plays, &c., performed at the theatres-royal in London, from the year 1712
Author
Victor, Benjamin, -1778
Published
London, Printed for T. Davies [etc.] 1761-71.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1761 V66 Copy 1
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1761 V66 Copy 2
Format
Books
10.
An oration, in which an enquiry is made whether the stage is, or can be made a school for forming the mind to virtue ... Spoke March 13, 1733, in the Jesuits College at Paris ..
Author
Porée, Charles, 1675-1741
Published
London, Printed for C. Davis, and sold by T. Astley, 1734.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 49 1608 v.67
Format
Books
11.
The history of the English puppet theatre
Author
Speaight, George
Published
London : G.G. Harrap, 1955.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1955 Sp31
Format
Books
12.
The history of the English puppet theatre
Author
Speaight, George
Published
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1955 2 Sp31
Format
Books
13.
A Royal Opera House in Leicester Square (1790)
Author
Price, Curtis
Published
Cambridge Opera Journal [1990?]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1990 P93
Format
Books
14.
English theatrical literature, 1559-1900; a bibliography
Author
Arnott, James Fullarton, 1914-
Published
London, Society for Theatre Research, 1970.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Reference (Non-Circulating) >> Z2014 .D7 A75
Format
Books
15.
A collection of Georgian-era tokens for London theaters
Published
[England], [between 1762 and 1820?]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 66 762 C697 Shelved in Object Room C:A
Format
Other
16.
Punch & Judy : a history
Author
Speaight, George
Published
Boston : Plays, inc., c1970.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1970S
Format
Books
17.
Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson
Author
Wilkinson, Tate, 1739-1803
Published
[England], [between 1748 and 1778]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> Folio 767 P69B W65
Format
Other
18.
The Georgian theatre
Author
Scott, Walter Sidney, 1900-1980
Published
London, Westhouse, 1946.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1946 Sc8
Format
Books
19.
The touch-stone: or, Historical, critical, political, philosophical, and theological essays on the reigning diversions of the town ... In which everything antique, or modern, relating to musick, poetry, dancing, pantomimes, chorusses, cat-calls ... circus, bear-garden, gladiators, prize-fighters ... is occasionally handled
Author
Ralph, James, -1762
Published
London : Printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1728.
Location
LSF- BEINECKE >> 421 1728r
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 63 740 K45
Format
Books
20.
The Cambridge companion to British theatre, 1730-1830
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Location
SML, Starr Main Reference Room (Non-Circulating) >> PN2593 C25 2007
BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Library (Non-Circulating) >> PN2581 .C34 2007 (LC)
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Reference (Non-Circulating) >> PN2593 .C25X 2007
Format
Books
21.
The Dramatic censor; being remarks upon the conduct, characters, and catastrophe of our most celebrated plays
Published
London, Printed for Richard Manby and H. S. Cox, 1752.
Location
BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> Fielding Sz770g
BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> Tracts 4
BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> Z17 286d
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1752 D79
Format
Journals & Newspapers
22.
Revels in Jamaica, 1682-1838: plays and players of a century, tumblers and conjurors, musical refugees and solitary showmen, dinners, balls and cockfights, darky mummers and other memories of high times and merry hearts
Author
Wright, Richardson Little, 1887-1961
Published
New York : Dodd, Mead, c1937.
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> nr 166
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1937 W935
Format
Books
23.
Celebrity, performance, reception : British Georgian theatre as social assemblage
Author
Worrall, David
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Online
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Location
HAAS ARTS LIBRARY, Drama Collection >> PN2593 .W67X 2013 (LC)
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 2013 W67
Format
Books
24.
The theatres of war : performance, politics, and society, 1793-1815
Author
Russell, Gillian
Published
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Location
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PN2594 R87X 1995
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 63 995 R913
Format
Books
25.
The Cambridge history of British theatre
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Library (Non-Circulating) >> PN2581 .C35 2004 (LC)
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> PN2581 C35 2004 (LC)
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Reference (Non-Circulating) >> PN2581 .C35 2004
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> PN2581 C35 2004
Format
Books
26.
The Garrick stage : theatres and audience in the eighteenth century
Author
Nicoll, Allardyce, 1894-1976
Published
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1980.
Location
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PN2593 N5 1980
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> PN2593 N5 1980 (LC)
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1980 N54
Format
Books
27.
George Colman, the elder : essayist, dramatist, and theatrical manager, 1732-1794
Author
Page, Eugene Richard, 1903-
Published
Morningside Heights, New York : Columbia University Press, 1935.
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> Im C71 W935p
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 53 C71 P14
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> C 4 C67p
Format
Books
28.
Sketch of the pantomime : the piece opens with the much admired Glee (the words from Shakespear) of "When shall we three meet again," by the witches, in an apratment in an enchanted castle, where Harlequin is supposed to be confined in a dungeon ... together with his magic sword ... Harlequin and Columbine are seen going in a boat, towards a ship, to visit the Captain, by whom they are entertained in the ship's cabin; in which scene a gentleman of Hull, for this night only, will sing "The sailor boy capering on shore" ... In the course of the pantomime will be introduced the dying and skeleton scene. Soon after which the piece concludes with a garland dance, by the characters
Published
[Hull, England?] : [s.n.], [18--]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> File 767 P69B H87 18--
Format
Books
29.
Theatre-Royal, Hull, on Wednesday evening the 27th of December, 1797, will be presented a favorite comedy, called The wheel of fortune ... End of the play "For Royal George we'll fight or die." by Mr Michell ... To which will be added the favorite and much admired burletta of Midas ... Tickets delivered by Mr. Hartley, at Mr. Coultas's Whitefriars-gate; and of Mr. Whitely, musicians, at Mr. Morehad's Finkle-street, will be admitted
Published
[Hull, England] : [s.n.], [1797]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> File 767 P69B H87 1797 12/27
Format
Books
30.
Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Cherry. Tuesday evening, February 5, 1793, will be revived the comedy of the Stratagem ... An entire new comic sketch, (never perform'd) call'd Irish Darby's return to Hull ... After which a comic, satyric, operatic, pantomimie romance, call'd Harlequin on the stocks, or, A pantomime launched (written by Mr. Cherry) ..
Published
[Hull, England] : [s.n.], [1793]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> File 767 P69B H87 1793 2/5
Format
Books
31.
The figure of theater : Shaftesbury, Defoe, Adam Smith, and George Eliot
Author
Marshall, David, 1953-
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, 1986.
Location
BASS, Lower Level >> PR756 T45 M37 1986
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PR756 T45 M37 1986
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 76 986 M355
Format
Books
32.
Theatric revolution : drama, censorship and Romantic period subcultures 1773-1832
Author
Worrall, David
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Location
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PN2593 W67 2006
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 2006 W67
Format
Books
33.
Four discourses on subjects relating to the amusement of the stage : preached at Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, on Sunday September 25, and Sunday October 2, 1808 : with copious supplementary notes
Author
Plumptre, James, 1770-1832
Published
Cambridge [England] : Printed by Francis Hodson, for F.C. & J. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-yard; and sold by J. Hatchard, No. 190, Piccadilly, London; J. Deighton and J. Nicholson, Cambridge; and Cook and Parker, Oxford, 1809 [i.e. 1832]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1809 P737
Format
Books
34.
The player's passion : studies in the science of acting
Author
Roach, Joseph R., 1947-
Published
Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c1985.
Location
Request for delivery to any Yale Library >> PN2071 P78 R6 1985 (LC)
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> PN2071 P78 R6 1985 (LC)
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1985 R6
Format
Books
35.
Around theatres
Author
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956
Published
London : Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953.
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> Hag24 930Bb
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 5754 B39 953
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> Hag24 930Bb
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> Ad 304 B39
LSF- BEINECKE >> 2007 696
Format
Books
36.
Sir John Vanbrugh, architect & dramatist, 1664-1726
Author
Whistler, Laurence, 1912-2000
Published
London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1938.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 55 V27 W57
Format
Books
37.
Bibliothèque dramatique de Monsieur de Soleinne. Table des pièces du théâtre décrites dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. de Soleinne
Author
Soleinne, Martineau de, d. 1842
Published
Paris, D. Morgand, 1914.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 123 So43 843 v.6
Format
Books
38.
Bibliothèque dramatique de Monsieur de Soleinne. Table générale du catalogue de la Bibliothèque dramatique de M. de Soleinne; comprenant une table des noms d'auteurs, une table des ouvrages relatifs au théâtre, et une table des pièces de théâtre
Author
Soleinne, Martineau de, d. 1842
Published
Paris, Administration de l'Alliance des art, 1845.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 123 So43 843 v.5
Format
Books
39.
Bibliothèque dramatique de Monsieur de Soleinne
Author
Soleinne, Martineau de, d. 1842
Published
Paris, Administration de l'Alliance des arts, 1843-45.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 123 So43 843
Format
Books
40.
British drama; an historical survey from the beginnings to the present time
Author
Nicoll, Allardyce, 1894-1976
Published
London [etc.] Harrap [1947]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1947 N54
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> Ib70 i925Ng
Format
Books
41.
A letter to David Garrick, Esq; on opening the theatre : in which, with great freedom, he is told how he ought to behave
Author
Purdon, Edward, 1729-1767
Published
London : Printed for I. Pottinger, in Pater-noster Row, MDCCLXIX [i.e. 1759]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 53 G193 L56
Format
Books
42.
New World drama : the performative commons in the Atlantic world, 1649-1849
Author
Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock
Published
Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2014.
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> PN2049 .D55X 2014 (LC)
HAAS ARTS LIBRARY, Drama Collection >> PN2049 .D55 2014 (LC)
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 2014 D55
Format
Books
43.
The London stage 1776-1800 : a critical introduction
Author
Hogan, Charles Beecher, 1906-
Published
Carbondale : Southern Illinois U.P. ; London : Feffer & Simons, Inc., 1968.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1968 H67
Format
Books
44.
English theatrical anecdotes, 1660-1800
Published
Newark, Delaware : University of Delaware Press, [2022]
©2022
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 2022 En57
Format
Books
45.
Jane Austen and the theatre
Author
Byrne, Paula
Published
London ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2002.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 56 Au7 B996
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PR4038.P4 B976 2002
Format
Books
46.
A history of English drama 1660-1900
Author
Nicoll, Allardyce, 1894-1976
Published
Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1952-1959.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Reference (Non-Circulating) >> PR625 .N535
Format
Books
47.
The laughing audience
Author
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Published
[London] : Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, [between 1760 and 1792]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ) >> Hogarth 760.00.00.01 Impression 2 Box 110
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ) >> Hogarth 760.00.00.01 Impression 1 Box 110
Format
Images
48.
BPS. New Theatre Covent Garden 1809
Published
[London] : [New Theatre Covent Garden], [1809]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ) >> 809.09.00.06++
Format
Other
49.
Coming out of a country theatre
Author
Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792
Published
[England], [1802]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ) >> IN PROCESS
Format
Images
50.
The laughing audience
Author
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765
Published
London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, [between 1746 and 1766?]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ) >> Hogarth 765.00.00.19 Box 112
Format
Images
51.
Carrying all before her : celebrity pregnancy and the London stage, 1689-1800
Author
Phillips, Chelsea
Published
Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2022]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 2022 P554
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PN2592.13.P74 P45 2022 (LC)
Format
Books
52.
Summer theatre in London, 1661-1820, and the rise of the Haymarket Theatre
Author
Burling, William J.
Published
Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2000.
Location
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PN2596 L7 H48X 2000
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 2000 B925
Format
Books
53.
Stagestruck : the business of theater in eighteenth-century France and its colonies
Author
Clay, Lauren
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Location
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PN2633 .C56X 2013
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 82 013C
Format
Books
54.
Rival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater
Author
Nussbaum, Felicity
Published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Library (Non-Circulating) >> PN2582.W65 N87 2010 (LC)
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 2010 N87
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PN2582.W65 N87X 2010
Format
Books
55.
Curtain calls : British and American women and the theater, 1660-1820
Published
Athens : Ohio University Press, 1991.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1991 C94
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> PN2582 W65 C87 1991
Format
Books
56.
Garrick claims the stage : acting as social emblem in eighteenth-century England
Author
Woods, Leigh
Published
Westport, Connecticut ; London : England ; Greenwood Press, [1984]
©1984
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 53 G193 W864
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PN2598 G37 W65 1984
Format
Books
57.
Wynnstay
Published
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1786?]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Format
Images
58.
Shakespere to Sheridan; a book about the theatre of yesterday and to-day
Author
Thaler, Alwin, 1891-1977
Published
Cambridge, Harvard university press; [etc., etc.] 1922.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1922 T32
Format
Books
59.
Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, Esq. : interspersed with characters and anecdotes of his theatrical contemporaries ; the whole forming a history of the stage, which includes a period of thirty-six years
Author
Davies, Thomas, 1713-1785
Published
London : Printed for the author, and sold at his shop in Great-Russell-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 53 G193 D28c
Format
Books
60.
British Theatrical and Literary Prints
Author
Lewis Walpole Library
Date
1711 1880
Call Number
LWL MSS 33
Found In
Lewis Walpole Library
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
61.
By particular desire for this night only, Mr. and Mrs. Gallager respectfully inform the ladies and gentlemen of [blank] that on Wednesday evening, July [blank] at Mr. [blank] they will present A medley of entertainments ... Part I. Mechanism, will be performed The grand le [sic] ombres chinoises ... Part II. Activity, dancing, singing, &c ... By the powers of machinery will be presented an ancient and splendid representation of Egypt, with the town of Rosetta, the places of worship, and ancient fortifications. Likewise the Battle of the Nile, between the English and French fleets ... Neptune riding in his triumphal car ..
Published
[England] : [publisher not identified], [not before 1798]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> File 767 P69B B859+
Format
Books
62.
A general view of the stage
Author
Wilkes, Thomas, -1786
Published
London : Printed for J. Coote ..., and W. Whetstone ..., 1759.
Location
BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> Hae27 759w
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1759 W652
Format
Books
63.
Wynnstay
Author
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811
Published
[England], [ca. 1786]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Format
Images
64.
Georgian scene painters and scene painting
Author
Rosenfeld, Sybil Marion, 1903-
Published
Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 72 981 R72
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> PN2091 S8 R587 (LC)
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> PN2091 S8 R587 (LC)
Format
Books
65.
The castle of Otranto or, Harlequin and the giant helmet. A new romantic comic pantomime ..
Published
London : J.K. Green, [1854, c1841]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> Quarto 24 17 854L
Format
Books
66.
Lease to William Williams, comedian : Weymouth
Author
Waltham, Drigue Billers Olmius, Baron, 1746-1787
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> LWL Mss File 119+++
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
67.
To The Right Honble. the Earl of Westmorland, Chancellor; to The Right Honble. the Earl of Litchfield, High Steward; to the Reverend the Vice-Chancellor; all the doctors, masters and scholars of the University of Oxford, this plate is humbly dedicated by their most obedient servant, Thos. Worlidge
Author
Worlidge, T. (Thomas), 1700-1766
Published
[London?] : [publisher not identified], pubd. according to act of Parliamt., March 28th, 1761.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ) >> Topos Ox98 no. 2++
Format
Images
68.
Letters which passed between Mr. West Digges, comedian, and Mrs. Sarah Ward, 1752-1759
Author
Digges, West, 1720?-1786
Published
Edinburgh : Thomas Stevenson, Princes Street, 1833.
[Edinburgh] : W. Aitken, printer, Bank-Street.
Location
LSF-Use in SML, Manuscripts and Archives only (Non-Circ) >> Hag29 D56 833
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 53 D569 833
Format
Books
69.
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 ..
Author
Baker, David Erskine, 1730-1767
Published
London : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt ..., C. Henderson ..., and T. Davies ..., 1764.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1764 B17
BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> Ik B1762 764C
LSF- BEINECKE >> X468 D764
LSF- BEINECKE >> X468 D764
Format
Books
70.
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 ..
Author
Baker, David Erskine, 1730-1767
Published
London : Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt ... C. Henderson ... and T. Davies ..., 1764.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 1764 B172
Format
Books / Microforms
71.
A letter from M. Rousseau, of Geneva, to M. D'Alembert, of Paris, concerning the effects of theatrical entertainments on the manners of mankind. Translated from the French
Author
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
Published
[London] : Printed for J. Nourse at the Lamb opposite Katherine-Street in the Strand, MDCCLIX [1759]
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72.
The fair in an uproar, or, The dancing-doggs : as they perform in Mr. Pinkeman's new opera in Bartholomew Fair
Published
London : Printed and sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers Hall, [1707?]
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LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ) >> 707.00.00.01
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73.
An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, comedian and patentee of the Theatre Royal
Author
Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
Published
London : Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, Stationers'-Hall Court, Ludgate Street, 1822.
[London] : William Oxberry, Printer, White-Hart-Yard.
Location
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Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> WB 22660
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74.
The World : [contributions in] nos. 6, 8, 10, 14, 28
Author
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
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75.
Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, tomorrow Friday October 3, 1794 will be presented the comic opera of The Castle of Andalusia : Ferdinand by Mr. Johnson, Pedrillo by Mr. Munden, Don Caesar by Mr. Bowden ... To which will be added the comdey of The follies of the day : Count Almaviva by Mr. Lewis, Figaro by Mr. Bernard, Antonio by Mr. Quick, Basil by Mr. Powel ..
Author
Covent Garden Theatre
Published
[London] : [s.n.], [1794]
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76.
Kitty Clive, or, The fair songster
Author
Joncus, Berta, 1961-
Published
Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2019.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 53 C618 J76
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77.
The pin-basket to the children of Thespis. : With notes historical, critical, and biographical
Author
Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818
Published
London : Printed for H.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row; and T. Bellamy, King-Street, Covent-Garden, 1797.
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78.
John Bull at a comedy
Published
[London] : Published 8th March 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London, [8 March 1796]
Location
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79.
The life of Mrs. Abington (formerly Miss Barton) celebrated comic actress. With full accounts of her various performances in the theatres of London and Dublin. Including interesting notes upon the history of the Irish stage and copious notices, anecdotes, and criticisms of her theatrical contemporaries. Embellished with a portrait in steel after Goswan
Author
Editor of the "Life of Quin"
Published
London : Reader, Orange Street, Holborn, 1888.
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80.
In the Free-Mason's Lodge room, at Mr. Cumming's, Nag's Head, Silver Street. Mr. Adcock respectfully solicits the patronage of the ladies, gentlemen, and public in general, on Monday evening December 14th, 1812 ... will be performed ... The Travellers; or Hit or miss. Consisting of recitations, singing and dancing. By Mr. Master and Miss Adcock, from the Theatre-Royal Newcastle. Part I> Excordium ... PArt II. A lecture upon hearts (with appropriate paintings) ... Part III. The barber's petition ... Tickets to be had of Mr. Davison, printer
Published
Alnwick [England] : Davison, printer, [1812]
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81.
Theatre-Royal, Hull, on Wednesday evening the 3rd of January, 1798, will be presented a tragedy, called, The London merchant, or, The history of George Barnwell ... End of the play concerto violin, Master Penso, pupil of Mr. French ... To which will be reviv'd a musical opera, called The doctor & apothecary ..
Published
[Hull, England] : [s.n.], [1798]
Location
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82.
Theatre-Royal, Hull. On Friday evening December 19, 1783, will be presented an opera, call'd The fair American ... To which will be added, in two parts, a panotmime, call'd Harlequin Genii. With scenery and machinery. Particularly two new scenes of a water-mill and fish-monger's shop ..
Published
[Hull, England] : [s.n.], [1783]
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83.
Owning performance / performing ownership : literary property and the eighteenth-century British stage
Author
Wessel, Jane, 1987-
Published
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2022]
©2022
Location
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PN2593 .W47 2022 (LC)
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 2022 W515
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84.
The politics of Romantic theatricality, 1787-1832 : the road to the stage
Author
Worrall, David
Published
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Online
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only
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LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 2007 W67
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85.
Theatre-Royal, Hull, on Friday evening the 5th of January, 1798, will be presented the favorite comic opera of Love in a village ... End of the opera, a favorite ong by Mrs Crisp. "the country man's ramble in town," ... After which, a much admired piece, called Doctor Last's examination (taken from Foote's Devil upou [sic] two sticks) ... To which will be added, an entire new pantomime entertainment, called Mirth and magic, or Harlequin's frolicks ..
Published
[Hull, England] : [s.n.], [1798]
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86.
The laughing audience, (or A pleased audience)
Author
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Published
[London] : [Wm. Hogarth], [March 1737]
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87.
An expostulatory letter to the Rev. W.D. Tattersall ... : in which the bad tendency of the admission of stage amusements, in a religious and moral point of view, is seriously considered
Author
Hill, Rowland, 1744-1833
Published
London : Printed by A. Paris, Roll's Buildings, and sold by J. Mathews, Strand, London; J. Bulgin, Bristol; R. Rakes, Gloucester; J. Bence, Wotton Underedge, 1795.
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88.
By permission of the Right Worshipful the Mayor. Mrs. Pinchott's third appearance, of the Theatres Royal Covent Garden and Drury-Lane. Finch returns his most hearty and sincere thanks to the public at large, for all the encouragement he has met with, and informs them, his benefit is fixed for Wednesday evening next, Nov. 4th ... The extraordinary alteration & improvement the hwole of the interior of The Pantheon has undergone ... The performance will commence with a new ballet dance, called the Merry millers. Principle characters Mr. Auld, Mr. Miller... the whole to conclude with a grand Indian spectacle ... written by Mr. Usher, called The savage chieftain, or, Sidney & his faithful dog ..
Published
Norwich : John Berry, printer, [approximately 1815]
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89.
Royal amphitheatre, Astley's, Westminster-Bridge ... Monday, August 22d, will be presented never performed, a most superb grand historical Chinese spectacle ... Zingina, or The heroine of China ... The songs, choresses, & spectacle written by Mr. Cecil Pitt ... Preceding the above, 37th time, a new military and naval spectacle divertisement written by Mr. Upton ... Invasion, or All for our country ...The whole to conclude with, 55th time, a grand comic pantomime, by Mr Laurent .. Genii's tomb. Columbine, Mrs. Wybrow, and clown Mr. Laurent ..
Published
Lambeth : Tibson, Printer (Surry Printing-Office) Bridge Road, [1803]
Location
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90.
Minor theatricals
Author
Taylor, W. John, active 1790-1810
Published
[London] : Published by W. Taylor, 11 Church Street Borough, [1825?]
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91.
Theatre-Royal, Hull, Friday evening December 17, 1790, will be performed a comedy, call'd The belle's stratagem ... To which will be added a pantomime entertainment, (never perform'd here) call'd Harelquin foundling, or, The fairy's favorite ... In the course of the pantomime wil be introduced the following tricks; the clown's flight over a turnpike-gate on a goose, the haunted kitchen, the dying scene, with Harlequin cut to pieces and his reanimation ... Tickets to be had at Rawson's Printing-Office; and of Mr. Swalwell and Mr. Southgate at Mrs. Windham's in Finkle Street, near the theatre
Published
[Hull, England] : [s.n.], [1790]
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92.
Arthur Bedford's (?) A serious advertisement (1705) and the early history of theatre in Bristol
Author
Milhous, Judith
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 769 2003 M55
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93.
Theatrical criticism in London to 1795
Author
Gray, Charles Harold, 1892-
Published
New York, Columbia university press, 1931.
Location
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Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> Ad 104 G79
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94.
Satire, prints and theatricality in the French revolution
Author
Trevien, Claire, 1985-
Published
Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, [2016]
Location
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95.
A peep behind the curtain at the Widow Belmour
Author
Sayers, James, 1748-1823
Published
[London] : [publisher not identified], [December 1790]
Location
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96.
A Christmas box
Author
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Published
[London] : Pubd. Decr. 26th, 1826, by S. Knights, Sweetings [A]lley, Royal Exchange, [26 December 1826]
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97.
Benefit of Mr Sandford. Theatre-Royal, Hull, on Tuesday evening the 10th of January, 1797, will be presented, a favorite comedy called, The dramatist, or, Stop him who can ... Between the acts, by particular desire, (for that night only) "The sailor boy capering on shore," to be sung in character by Miss Keys. After which the favorite burletta of Midas ... The whole to conclude with a pantomime spectacle, never performed here, called Medea & Jason : with the destruction of Jason, perishing amidst a shower of fire ... Box tickets ... to be had of Mr. Sandford, at Mrs. Mason's Myton-gate and of W. Rawson, printer
Published
[Hull, England] : [publisher not identified], [1797]
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98.
A history of early eighteenth century drama, 1700-1750
Author
Nicoll, Allardyce, 1894-1976
Published
Cambridge [Eng.] The University press, 1929.
Location
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99.
The laughing tradition : stage comedy in Garrick's day
Author
Bevis, Richard W.
Published
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1980.
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> PR708 C6 B4 1980 (LC)
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> PR708 C6 B4 1980
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100.
Strolling players & drama in the provinces, 1660-1765
Author
Rosenfeld, Sybil Marion, 1903-
Published
Cambridge [Eng.] The University press, 1939.
Location
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