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Introduction: Performing Drama, Performing Culture
Theatrical Biographies
Restoring the Theatre: 1660-1700
Section Overview
John Dryden and William Davenant, The Enchanted Island or The Tempest
- David Garrick, Prologue to The Tempest; an Opera
- Elizabeth Inchbald, Preface to The Tempest
- Image: John Peter Simon, The Inchanted Island: Before the Cell of Prospero
- Image: William Hogarth, Scene from The Tempest
- John Hamilton Mortimer, Caliban, Engraving
- F.D. Waldron, Excerpt from The Virgin Queen, a Drama in Five Acts; Attempted as a Sequel to Shakspeare's Tempest.
William Wycherley, The Country Wife
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment
- David Garrick, Preface to The Country Girl
- Image: Daniel Marot, Design for Queen Mary's China Room.
- Image: Sir Peter Lely, Diana Kirke, later Countess of Oxford
- Example of Chinese Porcelain, 1662-1722
- John Ogborne, Dorothy Jordan in the character of the Country Girl.
- Aphra Behn, The Disappointment
George Etherege, The Man of Mode
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James Park
- Sir Richard Steele, The Spectator, No. 65 (Tuesday, May 15, 1711)
- Image: Anonymous, Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
- John Dennis, A Defense of Sir Fopling Flutter
John Dryden, All For Love
- Image: Pierre Mirnard, Portrait of Louise Renee de Keroualle
- Image: Thomas Hawker, King Charles II
- Image: Antonio Verrio, The Sea Triumph of Charles II
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II
- Samuel Johnson, Dryden in The Lives of the English Poets
- John Dryden, Dedication and Preface to All For Love
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (?), The Royal Buss
- Richard Tompson, after Jacob Huysmans, Catherine of Braganza
- Andrew Marvell, On the Statue Erected by Sir Robert Viner
Aphra Behn, The Widdow Ranter
- Image: Nathaniel Bacon, Self-Portrait
- Ebeneezer Cook, The Sotweed Factor
- Image: W. Vincent, Anne Bracegirdle as The Indian Queen
- Robert Beverly, An Account of Bacon's Rebellion
John Van Brugh, The Relapse
- Colley Cibber, Henry Brett and Cibber's Periwig from An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber
- Jeremy Collier, Remarks on the Relapse
- Image: John Simon, Colley Cibber
- Colley Cibber, Love's Last Shift
- Colley Cibber, Dedication to Pelham
Managing Entertainment, 1700-1760
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William Congreve, The Way of the World
- Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
- John Vanbrugh A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok'd Wife, from Immorality and Prophaneness
- William Congreve, AMENDMENTS OF Mr. COLLIER's False and Imperfect CITATIONS
- William Congreve, Concerning Humour in Comedy
- Samuel Johnson The Lives of Poets
- S. Harding, Mrs. Bracegirdle
- link to Jeremy Collier, A Short View
- Sir John Suckling, I prithee spare me gentle boy
- Sir John Suckling, There never yet was woman
Susanna Centlivre, The Busie Body
- Susanna Centlivre, Epistle XL
- Charles Gildon, A Comparison Between the Two Stages
- Susanna Centlivre, dedication to The Platonick Lady
- John Mottley, A Compleat List of All the English Dramatic Poets
- Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser Review
- Image: Mr. Munden as Sir Francis Gripe
- Thomas King as Marplot
- Advertisement in Evelina
- Botany Bay Playbill
- Clarence Brown Production
- Munden as Sir Francis Gripe
John Rich, The Necromancer, or Harlequin Doctor Faustus and John Thurmond, Harlequin Doctor Faustus
- Harlequin & Punch Kick Apollo Out
- Print from The Necromancer
- Exploits of Harlequin
John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
- Image: Portrait of M. Walker in the Character of Cap'n Macheath
- Songs from Wit and Mirth
- Image: Harlequin Sheppard
- Henry Carey, Polly Peachum
- Image: William Hogarth, Plate 3, A Harlot's Progress
- Boswell, London Journal
- Excerpt from the St. James Chronicle or the British Evening Post
- James Boswell The Life of Johnson
- Image: Performed at a Little Theatre with Great Applause
- Polly in Weekly Gazeteer
- Pepusch overture image
- Pepusch score image
- Beggar's Opera recordings
- Newgate Calendar
- Zadok the Priest
- Morning Chronicle reprint of Swift on Beggar's Opera
- Bannister as Polly Peachum
- Hogarth, Scene from Beggar's Opera
Henry Fielding, The Author's Farce
- Image: William Hogarth, A Just View of the British Stage
- Image: The Player's Last Refuge
- Excerpt from The Licensing Act of 1737
- Joseph Addison, The Puppet Show
- Links to songs from Author's Farce
George Lillo, The London Merchant
- Excerpt from the Ballad of George Barnwell
- Image: The London Merchant or the History of George Barnwell, represented from the most particular moving incidents in that play
- The London Evening Post notice
- Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
- Gazetteer and London Daily Advertiser
- Image: William Hogarth, Industry and Idleness Plate 1
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- Charles Dickens, from Great Expectations
- Ken Jaworowskijan Review, The London Merchant, 2012
- The Ballad of George Barnwell (full)
- Blumenau London Merchant
- Richardson, Apprentice's Vade Mecum
- Hogarth, Industry and Idleness
Samuel Foote, The Minor (1760)
- The London Chronicle 1760 October 21-23
- Samuel Foote, The Diversions of a Morning
- Image: Henry Overton and Amede Van Loo, The Reverend George Whitefield
- Image: William Hogarth, Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism
- Image: Foote as Mrs. Cole
- The Public Ledger 1760
- The London Chronicle 1760
- Foote, the Devil and Polly Pattens
- Whitefield at Leeds
- Squintum's Farewell
- The Retort
- Miss Macaroni
Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions, 1760-1800
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David Garrick, The Jubilee
- Review, Public Advertiser, Oct. 17, 1769
- Garrick's Ode to Shakespeare
- Image: Benjamin Van der Gucht, Mr. Garrick as Steward of the Stratford Jubilee, September 1769
- Image: Mr. Garrick delivering his Ode at Drury Lane Theatre....
- Image: The Principal Characters in the Procession of the Pageant exhibited in the Jubilee...at Drury Lane Theatre
- The Jubilee Celebrations in the Newspapers
- Further reviews of the play
- Songs from Garrick's The Jubilee
- Print controversy concerning the Ode
- Ticket to Shakespeare's Jubilee
- Jubilee Booth
- Jubilee Medallion
- Mr. Garrick reciting his Ode
- Ticket to Shakespeare's Jubilee
- Frances Abington as Thalia
Richard Cumberland, The West Indian
- Goldsmith, A Description . . .
- Image: William Dickinson (after John Hamilton Mortimer), Mr. Parsons and Mr. Moody in the characters of Varland and Major O'Flaherty, in the 'West Indian', mezzotint, 1776.
- Image: The Middle Temple Macaroni. In short I am a West Indian!, from The Macaroni Scavoir Vivre and Theatrical Magazine, July 1773, 511, etching.
- Newspaper reviews on The West Indian
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
- William Woodfall, review
- Goldsmith An Essay...
- Image: Portrait of Mr Shuter and Mrs Green as Mr and Mrs Hardcastle and Mr Quick as Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer, mezzotint, 1775.
- Newspaper Reviews and Notices of She Stoops to Conquer
- Horace Walpole's letter
- Mr. Quick in the character of Tony Lumpkin
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal
- The Town and Country Magazine, History of the Tete-a-Tete or Memoirs of the hon. Capt. H____y and Mrs. N______t.
- Image: Scene from 'School for Scandal' being performed in Drury Lane Theatre, London; four actors on stage, the audience watching from boxes on either side. etching and engraving, 1778.
- Newspaper Reviews of School for Scandal
Hannah Cowley, The Belle's Stratagem
- An Account...the Masquerade at the Pantheon
- Review Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser Feb. 23, 1780
- Review Morning Post and Daily Advertiser Feb. 23, 1780
- Image: Chas. White, A Masquerade Scene in the Pantheon, engraving, 13 March 1773.
- Image: John Dixon, Inside View of the Pantheon, etching, 25 May 1784.
- Image: Portrait of Hannah Cowley
- Newspaper Reviews of Belle's Stratagem
- Carrington Bowles, Mr. Mattocks and Mr. Quick in the Characters of Don Ferdinand and Isaac Mendoza in The Duenna
- Mrs. Cowley
George Colman, Inkle and Yarico
- Extract from Richard Ligon, History of the Island of Barbadoes
- Richard Steele, Spectator No. 11. Tuesday, March 13, 1711
- Image: Robert Pollard (after Henry Singleton), The young English merchant Inkle,... aquatint engraving, 1788
- Image: Robert Pollard (after Henry Singleton), Inkle delivers the unhappy black girl... aquatint engraving, 1788
- Image: James Gillray, Wouski, hand-coloured etching
- Newspaper Reviews of and Songs from Inkle and Yarico
- Songs from Inkle and Yarico
- George Cruikshank, Wowski Lottery Ticket.
Elizabeth Inchbald, Everyone Has His Fault
- The Morning Herald, Jan. 30, 1793.
- The Star, Jan. 30, 1793.
- The True Briton No. 26 (Jan. 30, 1793).
- The World, Jan. 30, 1793.
- Critical Review, new series 7 (Feb. 1793): 223-4.
- The Thespian Magazine 1 (March 1793): 234-5.
- Image: George Dance, Elizabeth Inchbald, pencil, 1794.
- Remarks on Everyone Has His Fault