Biographia dramatica
Subtitle: 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 ...
By: Originally compiled, to the year 1764, by David Erskine Baker. Continued thence to 1782, by Isaac Reed ... and brought down to the end of November 1811, with very considerable additions and improvements throughout, by Stephen Jones. In three volumes.
Contributors: Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807.; Jones, Stephen, 1763-1827.
Publisher: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [etc.]
Published: 1812
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English drama -- Bio-bibliography; Oratorios -- Bibliography; Latin drama, Medieval and modern -- Bibliography; Theater -- Great Britain -- Bibliography
Genres: Bibliography.
Other titles: The companion to the playhouse.
Notes: 1st ed. published anonymously, 1764, under title "The companion to the playhouse"; 2d ed. by I. Reed, 1782, under present title.
Table of contents: title: v. 1, pt. 1. Author and actors: A-H.; title: v. 1, pt. 2. Authors and actors: I-Y. Appendix. Additions and corrections.; title: v. 2. Names of dramas: A-L.; title: v. 3. Names of dramas: M-Z. Latin plays by English authors. Oratorios. Appendix to v. 2 and 3. Additions and correction to v. 2 and 3.