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Eighteenth-Century Comic Opera Manuscripts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

R. W. Babcock
R. W. Babcock*
Affiliation:
Wayne University, Detroit
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PMLA , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , September 1937 , pp. 907 - 908
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1937

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References

1 A History of Late Eighteenth Century Drama, 1750–1800 (Cambridge Univ., 1927).

2 Messrs. Baker, Reed, and Jones.

3 The imitator of Sterne.

4 Bibliotheca Britannica (Edinburgh, 1824).

5 See his author list.

6 Neither Mr. Nicoll nor the Biographia Dramatica gives Richards an initial.

7 Op. cit., p. 335.

8 Ibid., p. 347.

9 Italian opera by Nicolas Piccini, produced in 1769.

10 Miss Gloryn Eichkern of Wayne University, Detroit, has already made an excellent study of most of the printed comic operas of the eighteenth century from 1762 to 1800 and will probably use these manuscript versions to supplement her study when it is about ready for publication.—For valuable corrections in the above article I am greatly indebted to Professor Dougald MacMillan of the University of North Carolina.