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The playhouse of Pepys

Title
The playhouse of Pepys, by Montague Summers ... With 24 collotype plates.
Author
Summers, Montague, 1880-1948
Publication
London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1935.

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Description
xv, 485 pages XXIV plates (including frontispiece, portraits, facsimiles); 25 cm
Subject
  • D'Avenant, William, 1606-1668
  • Killigrew, Thomas, 1612-1683
  • D'Avenant, William, 1606-1668
  • Killigrew, Thomas, 1612-1683
  • 1660-1700
  • English drama > Restoration, 1660-1700 > History and criticism
  • English drama > Restoration
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Five chapters, separate and complete in themselves, which form the second part or volume of an extended study of the Restoration stage; the first volume appeared in 1934 under title, "The Restoration theatre." cf. Introd.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction.--Sir William Davenant: his earlier work and the opera.--Thomas Killigrew; and the history of the theatres until the union of 1682.--The earlier Restoration dramatists: the Howards, Stapylton, Flecknoe, Wilson, Cowley, Porter, Sir William Killigrew and others.--The top-wits and the men of quality.--The minor dramatists, 1660-1682.--General index. Index of plays.
LCCN
35018950
OCLC
  • ocm00486630
  • 486630
  • SCSB-583212
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library