Specimens of English dramatic criticism, XVII-XX centuries / selected and introduced by A.C. Ward
1946, 2nd edition. London ; New York ; Toronto : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Price-clipped. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #417599
Physical description; 355, [1] pp.; 16 cm. Contents; London theatres in the 1660s / Samuel Pepys -- Betterton's benefit / Sir Richard Steele -- Thomas Betterton / Colley Cibber -- Garick's first performance in London / Thomas Davies -- Mr. Partridge sees Garick / Henry Fielding -- 'The beggar's opera': 18th century / Francis Gentleman -- Mrs. Siddons / Leigh Hunt -- Others -and Mrs. Siddons / Julian Charles Young -- 'The beggar's opera': 19th century / William Hazlitt -- Kean as Richard the Third / Thomas Barnes -- On actors and acting / William Hazlitt -- On the artificial comedy of the last century / Charles Lamb -- Phelps as Sadler's Wells / Henry Morley -- At the Pantomime / John Ruskin -- 'Caste' / The Times -- On natural acting / George Henry Lewes -- Ellen Terry / Dutton Cook -- Ellen Terry / Joseph Knight -- Irving in Shakespeare / Dutton Cook -- 'Ghosts' / Clement Scott -- 'Arms and the man' / William Archer -- 'Trilby' / The Times -- Donkey races / Alice Meynell -- Forbes Robertson's Hamlet / Bernard Shaw -- 'Trelawny of the "Wells"' / J.T. Grein -- F.R. Benson's Richard II / C.E. Montague -- Dan Leno / Sir Max Beerbohm -- 'The wild duck' / Desmond MacCarthy -- 'The Voysey inheritance' / A.B. Walkley -- 'The playboy of the Western world' / The Irish Times -- That dreadful play / P.D. Kenny -- Granville Barker's production of "Twelfth night" / The Morning Post -- 'The beggar's opera': 20th century / The Times -- The tragic actress (Sybil Thorndike) / W.A. Darlington -- 'A bill of divorcement' / At. John Ervine -- The search for the masterpiece ('Shall we join the ladies?') / H.W. Massingham -- 'Peer Gynt' at the Old Vic / D.L. Murray -- Marie Lloyd ; 'The way of the world' / James Agate -- 'Hamlet' in modern dress / Hubert Griffith -- A creator (Charles Laughton) / Sir Hugh Walpole -- Biblical ('Tobias and the angel') / Ivor Brown -- 'Twelfth night' at the Old Vic / Virginia Woolf -- 'Murder in the cathedral' / The Times -- 'As you like it' at the Old Vic / Alan Dent. Subjects; Theater Great Britain History. Drama History and criticism.
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