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• English dramatists

• The play of the future, by a playwright of the past; a glance at "The future of the theatre" (S. French, 1914), by Sydney Grundy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Random records (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by George Colman (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 (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1812), by David Erskine Baker, Stephen Jones, and Isaac Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical register: or, The lives and characters of all the English poets. With an account of their writings. (Printed and sold by A. Bettesworth, W. Taylor and F. Batley [etc.], 1723), by Giles Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations : English drama. (s.n., 1862), by Max Wagner, Friedrich Möller, Heinrich Hoffschulte, Ficke, A. Böhck, Eduard John, and Leopold Bahlsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the most eminent and scientific men of Great Britain. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1836), by S. A. Dunham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old dramatists: conjectural readings. (Thacker, Spink, 1898), by Kenneth Deighton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical register: or, The lives and characters of all the English dramatick poets. With an account of their writings. (E. Curll, 1719), by Giles Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Players and playwrights I have known (Chatto & Windus, 1888), by John Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The drama and dramatists of England. Eine abhandlung vom oberlehrer dr. John. (Gedruckt bei F. Fritsch, 1848), by Eduard John (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eminent literary and scientific men of Great Britain and Ireland. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1836), by S. A. Dunham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of British dramatists. (Carey and Hart, 1846) (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 ... (AMS Press, 1976), by Gerard Langbaine and Charles Gildon (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, by Colley Cibber
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• Memoirs of the life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Widdleton, 1866), by Thomas Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. (David West and John West, and O. C. Greenleaf; David Carlisle, printer, 1806), by Richard Cumberland (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row, 1808), by Thomas Davies, R. B. Adam, Samuel Gosnell, William Evans, Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library), and Hurst Longman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires sur la vie privée, politique et littéraire de Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Arthus Bertrand, 1826), by Thomas Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. (186 Pearl Street, New York, 1806), by Richard Cumberland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. (Lackington, Allen, 1806), by Richard Cumberland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sheridan : from new and original material, including a manuscript diary by Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (Folcroft Library Editions, 1980), by Walter Sichel and Georgiana Spencer Cavendish Devonshire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sheridan (Macmillan, 1909), by Mrs. Oliphant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of William Congreve (W. Scott ;, 1888), by Edmund Gosse and John Parker Anderson (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. (Printed for Lackington, Allen, & Co., 1806), by Richard Cumberland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and times of Frederic Reynolds (H. Colburn, 1827), by Frederick Reynolds, George Henry Harlow, and Henry Hoppner Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and times of Frederic Reynolds (H. Colburn, 1826), by Frederick Reynolds, George Henry Harlow, and Henry Hoppner Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 2 (of 2): Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement, by Colley Cibber (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2): Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement, by Colley Cibber (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope, by Colley Cibber, contrib. by Helene Koon (Gutenberg ebook)

• Daniel Frohman presents; an autobiography. (C. Kendall & W. Sharp, 1935), by Daniel Frohman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Players and playwrights I have known: a review of the English stage from 1840 to 1880 (Gebbie & co., 1890), by John Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life, letters and literary remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton. (K. Paul, Trench, 1883), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The life, letters and literary remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton. (K. Paul, Trench, 1883), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, From the Text of Johnson, Steevens and Reed; With a Biographical Memoir, Summary Remarks on each Play, Copious Glossary, and Variorum Notes (New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1855), by William Shakespeare, ed. by George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, and Isaac Reed
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• Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of Great Britain. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, etc., 1836), by Samuel A. Dunham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dramatic works and poems (George Dearborn, 1834), by William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons, and Samuel Weller Singer (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 (1699), by Gerard Langbaine, William Constable, and Charles Gildon (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story, by Frank Harris (Gutenberg text)
• The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story (New York: M. Kennerley, 1909), by Frank Harris
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• Merrie Conceited Jests, by George Peele (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Shakespeare (London: Macmillan and Co., 1909), by Walter Raleigh
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• William Shakspere: A Biography (London: C. Knight, 1851), by Charles Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fact and Fiction About Shakespeare: With Some Account of the Playhouses, Players, and Playwrights of His Period (Stratford-on-Avon: G. Boyden; London: H. Williams, ca. 1894), by Alfred C. Calmour (page images at HathiTrust)
• A life of William Shakespeare (The Macmillan company, 1916), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A life of William Shakespeare (The Macmillan Company, 1909), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's life and work : being an abridgement, chiefly for the use of students, of a life of William Shakespeare (Macmillan, 1907), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• William Shakespeare : poet, dramatist, and man (Macmillan, 1900), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare (The Macmillan Company;, 1907), by Walter Alexander Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of the life of William Shakespeare, with an essay toward the expression of his genius, and an account of the rise and progress of the English drama. (Little, Brown, and company, 1865), by Richard Grant White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Shakespeare. Copied from the best sources, without comment. (Little, Brown, and company, 1893), by Daniel W. Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Shakespeare (Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1876), by Karl Elze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leben Shakespeare's (W. Spemann, 1904), by Robert Hessen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakespere, his birthplace, home, and grave : a pilgrimage to Stratford-on-Avon in the autumn of 1863 (Lovell Reeve, 1864), by J. M. Jephson and Ernest Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• A chronicle history of the life and works of William Shakespeare, player, poet, and playmaker (Scribner & Welford, 1886), by Frederick Gard Fleay (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biography of William Shakespeare, set forth as his life drama (The William Harvey Miner co., inc., 1922), by Denton Jaques Snider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare, the man : an essay (McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901), by Walter Bagehot (page images at HathiTrust)
• A life of William Shakespeare (L.C. Page & Co., 1904), by W. J. Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of the life and work of William Shakespeare : collected from the most recent authorities. (Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886), by Joseph Cundall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biography and bibliography of Shakespeare. (AMS Press, 1972), by Henry George Bohn and Philobiblon Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• What we really know about Shakespeare. (Roberts brothers, 1886), by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's London; a study of London in the reign of Queen Elizabeth (Corner House Publishers, 1897), by T. Fairman Ordish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Shakespeare. (Funk & Wagnalls, 1909), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of William Shakespeare. (AMS Press, 1973), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakespeare, Puritan and recusant (AMS Press, 1970), by Thomas Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's town and times. (Truslove & Comba;, 1896), by H. Snowden Ward and Catharine Weed Barnes Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspeare et son uvre. (A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et cie, 1865), by Alphonse de Lamartine (page images at HathiTrust)
• A life of William Shakespeare (The Macmillan company;, 1898), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A life of William Shakespeare (Macmillan, 1916), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The character of Shakespeare (Norwood Editions, 1978), by H. C. Beeching (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The man Shakespeare and his tragic life story (F. Palmer, 1911), by Frank Harris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakspeare and His Times, by François Guizot, contrib. by Achille-Léon-Victor Broglie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2]: Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age, by Nathan Drake (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 1 of 2]: Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age, by Nathan Drake (Gutenberg ebook)
• William Shakespeare, by Victor Hugo, trans. by A. Baillot (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shakespeare: Player, Poet, and Playmaker, by Frederick Gard Fleay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Francis Beaumont: Dramatist: A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean,: And of His Association with John Fletcher, by Charles Mills Gayley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592, by Arthur Acheson (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Life of William Shakespeare: with portraits and facsimiles, by Sidney Lee (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Facts About Shakespeare, by William Allan Neilson and Ashley Horace Thorndike (Gutenberg ebook)

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