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• English dramatists

• Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. (London, Smith, Elder and co., 1861), by John R. Wise, illust. by W. J. Linton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspeare et son uvre. (Paris [etc.] A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et cie, 1865), by Alphonse de Lamartine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. (Published by Brisban and Brannan, 186 Pearl Street, New York, 1806), by Richard Cumberland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. (London, Lackington, Allen, 1806), by Richard Cumberland (page images at HathiTrust)
• A life of William Shakespeare [electronic resource] / (New York ; Toronto : Macmillan, 1916), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sheridan [electronic resource] / (London ; Toronto : Macmillan, 1909), by Mrs. Oliphant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book about Shakespeare written for young people [electronic resource] / (London; Edinburgh : T. Nelson, 1898), by Jean N. McIlwraith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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 / (London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row, 1808), by Thomas Davies, Samuel Gosnell, William Evans, and Samuel Johnson, contrib. by Hurst Longman, illust. by Joshua Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
• A life of William Shakespeare, (Boston, L.C. Page & Co., [c1904]), by W. J. Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical register: or, The lives and characters of all the English poets. With an account of their writings. (London, Printed and sold by A. Bettesworth, W. Taylor and F. Batley [etc.], 1723), by Giles Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eminent literary and scientific men of Great Britain and Ireland. (London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1836-38), by S. A. Dunham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The drama and dramatists of England. Eine abhandlung vom oberlehrer dr. John. (Nordhausen, Gedruckt bei F. Fritsch, [1848-62]), by Eduard John (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the most eminent and scientific men of Great Britain. (London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1836-38), by S. A. Dunham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives and characters of the English dramatick poets : also an exact account of all the plays that were yet printed in the English tongue, their double title, the places where acted, and the dates when printed, and the persons to whom dedicated, with remarks and observations on most of the said plays /, by Gerard Langbaine, William Constable, and Charles Gildon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of the life and work of William Shakespeare : collected from the most recent authorities. (London : Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886), by Joseph Cundall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old dramatists: conjectural readings. (Calcutta, Thacker, Spink, 1898), by Kenneth Deighton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Outlines of the life of Shakspeare. (London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• A life of William Shakespeare, (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1909), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A life of William Shakespeare, (New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1898), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakespere, his birthplace, home, and grave : a pilgrimage to Stratford-on-Avon in the autumn of 1863 / (London : Lovell Reeve, 1864), by J. M. Jephson and Ernest Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires sur la vie privée, politique et littéraire de Richard Brinsley Sheridan, (Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1826), by Thomas Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Shakespeare / (Halle : Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1876), by Karl Elze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Shakespeare. (New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1909), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical register: or, The lives and characters of all the English dramatick poets. With an account of their writings. (London, E. Curll, 1719-20), by Giles Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of British dramatists. (Philadelphia, Carey and Hart, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dramatic works and poems / (New York : George Dearborn, 1834), by William Shakespeare and Charles Symmons, ed. by Samuel Weller Singer (page images at HathiTrust)
• What we really know about Shakespeare. (Boston, Roberts brothers, 1886), by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of William Shakespeare. (New York, AMS Press, [1973]), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of Shakespeare. Copied from the best sources, without comment. (Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1893), ed. by Daniel W. Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Heywood als Dramatiker : ein Beitrag zur Entwickelungsgeschichte des englischen Dramas / (Wien : W. Braumüller, 1888), by Wilhelm Swoboda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of William Congreve [electronic resource] / (London : W. Scott ; Toronto : W.J. Gage, 1888), by Edmund Gosse and John Parker Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drama i teatr ėpokhi Shekspira / (Leningrad : Rossiĭskiĭ in-t istorii iskusstv "Academia", 1925), by V. K. Mi︠u︡ller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A life of William Shakespeare, (New York, The Macmillan company, 1916), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Frohman presents; an autobiography. (New York, C. Kendall & W. Sharp, [c1935]), by Daniel Frohman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life, letters and literary remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton. (London, K. Paul, Trench, 1883), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Players and playwrights I have known: a review of the English stage from 1840 to 1880, (Philadelphia, Gebbie & co., 1890), by John Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare, the man : an essay / (New York : McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901), by Walter Bagehot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's town and times. (New York, Truslove & Comba; London, Dawbarn & Ward, limited, [1896]), by H. Snowden Ward and Catharine Weed Barnes Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's life and work : being an abridgement, chiefly for the use of students, of a life of William Shakespeare / (New York : Macmillan, 1907), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakespeare, (New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1907), by Walter Alexander Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakespeare's London; a study of London in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, (Williamstown, Mass., Corner House Publishers, 1975 [c1897]), by T. Fairman Ordish (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Shakespeare : poet, dramatist, and man / (New York : Macmillan, 1900), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographia dramatica : or, A companion to the playhouse containing historical and critical memoirs, and original anecdotes of British and Irish dramatic writers from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions ; among whom are some of the most celebrated actors: also an alphabetical account, and chronological lists, of their works, the dates when printed and observations on their merits: together with an introductory view of the rise and progress of the British stage, originally compiled to the year 1764 / (London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1812), by David Erskine Baker and Stephen Jones, ed. by Isaac Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan / (New York : Widdleton, 1866), by Thomas Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, written by himself : containing an account of his life and writings, interspersed with anecdotes and characters of several of the most distinguished persons of his time, with whom he has had intercourse and connexion. (London : Printed for Lackington, Allen, & Co., 1806), by Richard Cumberland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The play of the future, by a playwright of the past; a glance at "The future of the theatre", ([London] S. French, 1914), by Sydney Grundy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sheridan : from new and original material, including a manuscript diary by Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire / (Folcroft, Pa. : Folcroft Library Editions, 1980), by Walter Sichel and Georgiana Spencer Cavendish Devonshire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The character of Shakespeare / ([Norwood, Pa. : Norwood Editions, 1978]), by H. C. Beeching (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dissertations : English drama. ([S.l. : s.n., 1862?-1894]), by Max. English dramatic blank-verse before Marlowe. 1881-1882 Wagner, Friedrich. Remarks on the first regular comedy of English literature and its author. 1890 Möller, Heinrich. Über Ben Jonsons ältere Lustspiele. 1894 Hoffschulte, Ficke. Critical examination of Addison's Cato. 1885, A. Über die Anfänge des englischen Dramas. 1890 Böhck, Eduard. Drama and dramatists of England. 1862? John, and Leopold Bahlsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biography and bibliography of Shakespeare. ([New York, AMS Press, 1972]), by Henry George Bohn and Philobiblon Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives and characters of the English dramatick poets. Also an exact account of all the plays that were yet printed in the English tongue ... ([New York, AMS Press, 1976]), by Gerard Langbaine and Charles Gildon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biography of William Shakespeare, set forth as his life drama, (Saint Louis, The William Harvey Miner co., inc., 1922), by Denton Jaques Snider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Players and playwrights I have known, (London : Chatto & Windus, 1888), by John Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of the life of Shakespeare. (London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1883), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)

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