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• Bibliotheca dramatica. Catalogue of the theatrical and miscellaneous library of the late William E. Burton, the distinguished comedian, comprising an immense assemblage of books relating to the stage ... (J. Sabin and Co., 1860), by William E. Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of J.H.V. Arnold. (New York, 1879), by John H. V. Arnold, J. O. W., and J. O. W. (page images at HathiTrust)
• The companion to the play-house; or, An historical account of all the dramatic writers (and their works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions, down to the present year 1764. Composed in the form of a dictionary. (T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt [etc.], 1764), by David Erskine Baker (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)
• 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; amongst whom are some of the most celebrated actors. Also an alphabetical account of their works, the dates when printed, and occasional observations on their merits. Together with an introductory view of the rise and progress of the British stage (Printed for Rivingtons [etc.], 1782), by David Erskine Baker and Isaac Reed (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 ... (AMS Press, 1966), by David Erskine Baker, Stephen Jones, and Isaac Reed (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 ... (AMS Press, 1966), by David Erskine Baker, Stephen Jones, and Isaac Reed (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 ... also an alphabetical account of their works, the dates when printed, together with an introductory view of the rise and progress of the British stage (Printed for Mess. Rivingtons, ... , T. Payne and Son, ... , [and 7 others], 1782), by David Erskine Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical account of all the dramatic writers (and their works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland (Printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt ..., C. Henderson ... and T. Davies ..., 1764), by David Erskine Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the valuable library and collections of engraved & other portraits, and autograph letters, the property of the well-known amateur William Wright : which will be sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... Monday, the 12th day of June, 1899 ... (Dryden Press, 1899), by William Wright and England) Sotheby & Co. (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliotheca dramatica et curiosa ([s.n.], 1879), by John H. V. Arnold and J. O. W. (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bibliographical account of English theatrical literature from the earliest times to the present day (J.C. Nimmo, 1888), by Robert William Lowe, Thomas Franklin Currier, and F. E. Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• Momus triumphans: or, The plagiaries of the English stage; expos'd in a catalogue of all the comedies, tragi-comedies, masques, tragedies, opera's, pastorals, interludes, &c., both ancient and modern, that were ever yet printed in English. The names of their known and supposed authors. Their several volumes and editions: with an account of the various originals, as well English, French, and Italian, as Greek and Latine, from whence most of them stole their plots. (Printed for Nicholas Cox, and are to be sold by him in Oxford, 1688), by Gerard Langbaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the valuable collection of play-bills, portraits, photographs, engravings, etc., etc., formed by the late James H. Brown ... comprising about 180,000 American and English play-bills ... C.F. Libbie & co., auctioneers ... Boston, Mass. (Press of the Libbie show print, 1898), by James Hutchinson Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bibliotheca Dramatica: Catalogue of the Theatrical and Miscellaneous Library of the Late William E. Burton, the Distinguished Comedian, Comprising an Immense Assemblage of Books Relating to the Stage (auction catalog, 2 parts in 1 volume; New York: J. Sabin and Co., 1860)
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• A bibliographical account of English theatrical literature from the earliest times to the present day. (J.C. Nimmo, 1966), by Robert William Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bibliographical account of English theatrical literature from the earliest times to the present day. (Republished by the Gale Research Co., 1966), by Robert William Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bibliographical account of English theatrical literature from the earliest times to the present day (J.C. Nimmo, 1888), by Robert William Lowe, Thomas Franklin Currier, and F. E. Chase (page images at HathiTrust)

• Egerton's Theatrical remembrancer, containing a complete list of all the dramatic performances in the English language; their several editions, dates, and sizes, and the theatres where they were originally performed: together with an account of those which have been acted and are unpublished, and a catalogue of such Latin plays as have been written by English authors, from the earliest production of the English drama to the end of the year MDCCLXXXVII. (T. and J. Egerton, 1788), by Thomas Egerton and John Egerton (page images at HathiTrust)

• A bibliography of British dramatic periodicals, 1720-1960. (New York Public Library, 1962), by Carl Joseph Stratman (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Our Stage and its Critics (1910), by Edward Fordham Spence (Gutenberg text)
• From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith, Written by Himself (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockborn, 1913), by Weedon Grossmith
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• The contemporary theatre, 1923- (L. Parsons, 1924), by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Retrospections of the stage (Carter and Hendee, 1832), by John Bernard and William Bayle Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• From studio to stage; reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith (John Lane company;, 1913), by Weedon Grossmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, comedian and patentee of the Theatre Royal (W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822), by Colley Cibber and Edmund Bellchambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• My crystal ball; reminiscences (Hurst and Blackett, ltd., 1924), by Elisabeth Marbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Punch and Judy & other essays (Doubleday, Page & company, 1924), by Maurice Baring (page images at HathiTrust)
• The twentieth-century theatre (G.G. Harrap & Company, ltd., 1924), by Frank Vernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our stage and its critics (Methuen, 1910), by Edward Fordham Spence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das englische theater im 19. jahrhundert; seine bühnenkunst und literatur (R. Oldenbourg, 1914), by Ernst Leopold Stahl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stage life of Mrs. Stirling : with some sketches of the nineteenth century theatre (T. F. Unwin, Ltd. :, 1922), by Percy Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stage journalism. The Drama. (T. and J. Elvey., 1821) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Random records (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by George Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Retrospections of the stage. (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by John Bernard and William Bayle Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatic values (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925), by C. E. Montague (page images at HathiTrust)
• About the theatre; essays and studies (T. F. Unwin, 1886), by William Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alarums and excursions (G. Richards ltd., 1922), by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust)
• The censorship muddle and a way out of it : a letter addressed to the Right Honourable Herbert Samuel (Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1909), by Henry Arthur Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The backgrounds of Shakespeare's plays (American Book Co., 1950), by Karl Julius Holzknecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature in the theatre, and other essays (Holt, 1925), by W. A. Darlington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The twentieth-century theatre (Houghton Mifflin company, 1924), by Frank Vernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• At half-past eight; essays of the theatre, 1921-1922 (J. Cape, 1923), by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust)
• A national theatre, scheme & estimates. (Duckworth & co., 1907), by William Archer and Harley Granville-Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English stage of to-day (J. Lane, 1908), by Mario Borsa and Selwyn Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contemporary drama of England (Little, Brown, 1931), by Thomas H. Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pepys on the restoration stage. (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1916), by Samuel Pepys and Helen McAfee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theatre unbound; a plea on behald of the ill-used: the actor, the stage and the spectator. (C. Palmer, 1923), by Alexander Bakshy (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings, of all those that have publish'd either comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces, or opera's in the English tongue. (Printed by L. L. for G. West and H. Clements, 1691), by Gerard Langbaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stage: its past and present in relation to fine art. (R. Bentley and son, 1875), by Henry Garside Neville (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief view of the English drama, from the earliest period to the present time: (C. Mitchell, 1840), by F. G. Tomlins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatic values (Methuen & co. ltd., 1911), by C. E. Montague (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bell's British theatre, consisting of the most esteemed English plays... (J. Bell; & C. Etherington, 1776), by John Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of the drama; a guide to the plays, playwrights, players, and playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the earliest times to the present. Vol. 1, A-G. (B. Franklin, 1965), by William Davenport Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dramatist, or, Memoirs of the stage : with the life of the authoress, prefixed, and interspersed with, a variety of anecdotes, humourous and pathetic (Printed by Martin & Hunter ..., 1809), by Ann Catherine Jackson Holbrook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Behind the footlights (The Musson Book Company, 1900), by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie and Watson & Viney Hazell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty years at the play and Dramatic table talk (Railway and General Automatic Library, 1891), by Clement Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Behind the footlights (Hutchinson & Co., 1904), by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the genius of Shakespeare : with critical remarks on the characters of Romeo, Hamlet, Juliet, and Ophelia ; together with some observations on the writings of Sir Walter Scott. To which is annexed, A letter to Lord --, containing a critique on taste, judgment, and rhetorical expression, and remarks on the leading actors of the day ... (J. Bigg, 1826), by Henry Mercer Graves (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contemporary theatre (L. Parsons, 1923), by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two lectures : Colley Cibber's "Apology" delivered to the members of the O. P. Club, Sunday, April 24th, 1904 and The Art & status of the actor, delivered to the members of the Playgoers' Club, Sunday, April 1st, 1900 (Chiswick Press, 1904), by Henry Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theatre unbound; a plea on behalf of the ill-used: the actor, the stage and the spectator; also an appeal to the dramatist that he may assist these to their freedom and thus obtain his own salvation (C. Palmer, 1923), by Aleksandr Bakshy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il teatro inglese contemporaneo (Treves, 1906), by Mario Borsa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contemporary drama of England (Little, Brown, and company, 1917), by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatic values (Macmillan, 1911), by C. E. Montague (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stage life of Mrs. Stirling : with some sketches of the nineteenth century theatre (E.P. Dutton, 1922), by Percy Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of the drama; a guide to the plays, play-wrights, players, and playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the earliest times to the present (Chatto & Windus, 1904), by William Davenport Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in the theatre; a biographical record of the contemporary stage. (1912), by John Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of theatres and music-halls : including contracts and precedents of contracts (Stevens and Sons, 1885), by W. N. M. Geary and James Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatic values (Methuen & co., ltd., 1911), by C. E. Montague (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alarums and excursions (Doran, 1922), by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scheme & estimates for a national theatre. (Duffield & company, 1908), by William Archer and Harley Granville-Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Behind the footlights (Dodd Mead, 1904), by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief view of the English drama, from the earliest period to the present condition of the art, and of its professors. (C. Mitchell, 1840), by F. G. Tomlins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New British Theatre; a selection of original dramas, not yet acted (H. Colburn [etc.], 1814) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über das englische theaterwesen zu Shakspere's zeit (Heyse, 1853), by Nikolaus Delius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prolegomena zu einer Darstellung der englischen Volksbühne zur Elisabeth- und Stuart-Zeit nach den alten Bühnen-Anweisungen ... (Hahn, 1905), by Paul Mönkemeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Era almanac (Era, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Punch and Judy : & other essays (William Heinemann Ltd, 1924), by Maurice Baring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatic criticism, 1895-98 : a selection (Hill and Wang, 1959), by Bernard Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Weekly review and dramatic critic. (H. Robinson., 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of the drama : a guide to the plays, playwrights, players, and playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the earliest times to the present. vol. 1. A-G. (Ghatto & windus, 1904), by William Davenport Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dramatic magazine (London, Whittaker, Treacher and Co, between 1000 and 1999) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Era almanack and annual 1870-<86> (London, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the English stage, from the restauration to the present time. Including the lives, characters and amours, of the most eminent actors and actresses. With instructions for public speaking; wherein the action and utterance of the bar, stage, and pulpit are distinctly considered. (Printed for E. Curll, 1741), by Thomas Betterton, Edmund Curll, and William Oldys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the Select Committee on Theatrical Licenses and Regualtions; together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, appendix, and index ([London] :, 1866), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Theatrical Licenses and Regulations (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief view of the English drama : from the earliest period to the present time, with suggestions for elevating the present condition of the art, and of its professors. (C. Mitchell, 1840), by F. G. Tomlins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Era almanack and annual (London., 1868), by Edward Ledger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaiety Theatre Christmas Annual (Gaiety Theatre], 1909), by Henry Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the genius of Shakespeare, with critical remarks on the characters of Romeo, Hamlet, Juliet, and Ophelia; together with some observations on the writings of Sir Walter Scott. To which is annexed, A letter to Lord -----, containing a critique on taste, judgment, and rhetorical expression, and remarks on the leading actors of the day ... (J. Bigg, 1826), by Henry Mercer Graves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of an old playgoer : by Matthew Arnold; with an introduction by Brander Matthews. (Printed for the Dramatic museum of Columbia university, 1919), by Matthew Arnold and Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mirror of the stage (Published for the proprietors by E. Duncombe, at his Theatrical Repository ..., 1823), by Clarence S. Bement, Robert Cruikshank, and J. Findlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatrical inquisitor. (Sherwood, Neely and Jones., 1812) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on the present state of the English drama (Hailes Lacy, 1851), by F. G. Tomlins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contemporary drama of England (John Murray, 1920), by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English stage : its origins and modern developments : a critical and historical study (J. Ouseley, 1912), by D. E. Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suggestions for establishing an English art theatre. (Wyman, 1879), by J. R. Planché (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatic criticism (Greening, 1898), by Jack Thomas Grein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of an old playgoer (Printed for the Dramatic museum of Columbia university, 1919), by Matthew Arnold, Brander Matthews, and BookLab (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of our present theatrical disputes, fairly states, in which is contained, a succinct account of the rise, progress, and declension of the ancient stage; a comprehensive view of the management of the Italian, Spanish, French, and Dutch theatres, with some free remarks upon our own ... (AMS Press, 1974), by James Ralph (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theatre, an art and an industry (the Labour publishing company limited, 1924), by H. R. Barbor (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of the play : studies and illustrations and histrionic story, life, and character (S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882), by Dutton Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• My crystal ball; reminiscences. (Boni and Liveright, 1923), by Elisabeth Marbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• About the theatre : essays and studies (T.F. Unwin, 1886), by William Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contemporary theatre, 1923 (London : L. Parsons, 1924., 1924), by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contemporary theatre (Chapman and Hall, 1923), by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contemporary theatre, 1925 (Chapman & Hall, 1926), by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contemporary theatre, 1926 (Chapman & Hall, 1927), by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Behind the Footlights, by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage (London : Printed for S. Keble ... R. Sare ... and G. Strahan ..., 1700), by Jeremy Collier (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage (London : Printed for S. Keble ... R. Sare ... and H. Hindmarsh ..., 1698), by Jeremy Collier (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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