Book contents
- Writing the History of the British Stage, 1660–1900
- Writing the History of the British Stage, 1660–1900
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Book part
- Introduction
- Prelude
- Chapter 1 Restoration Booksellers as Theatre Historians
- Chapter 2 Trivial Discourses and Persons Not Worth Remembering
- Chapter 3 Gerard Langbaine and His Progeny
- Chapter 4 John Downes and What the Prompter Saw
- Chapter 5 The Biography of Biographia Dramatica
- Interlude
- Chapter 6 The Design of Theatrum Anglicanum
- Chapter 7 Histories of My Own Time
- Chapter 8 Edmond Malone and the Search for Theatrical Intelligence
- Chapter 9 The Anxieties of John Payne Collier
- Postlude
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2016
Book contents
- Writing the History of the British Stage, 1660–1900
- Writing the History of the British Stage, 1660–1900
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Book part
- Introduction
- Prelude
- Chapter 1 Restoration Booksellers as Theatre Historians
- Chapter 2 Trivial Discourses and Persons Not Worth Remembering
- Chapter 3 Gerard Langbaine and His Progeny
- Chapter 4 John Downes and What the Prompter Saw
- Chapter 5 The Biography of Biographia Dramatica
- Interlude
- Chapter 6 The Design of Theatrum Anglicanum
- Chapter 7 Histories of My Own Time
- Chapter 8 Edmond Malone and the Search for Theatrical Intelligence
- Chapter 9 The Anxieties of John Payne Collier
- Postlude
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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