Title: A general history of the stage; (More Particularly the Irish Theatre) From its Origin in Greece down to the present Time. With the memoirs of most of the principal Performers, that have appeared on the Dublin stage, for the last Fifty Years [...]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> A general history of the stage; (More Particularly the Irish Theatre) From its Origin in Greece down to the present Time. With the memoirs of most of the principal Performers, that have appeared on the Dublin stage, for the last Fifty Years. With Notes, Antient, Modern, Foreign, Domestic, Serious, Comic, Moral, Merry, Historical, and Geographical, containing many Theoretical Anecdotes; also several Pieces of Poetry, never before published. Collected and Digested by W. R. Chetwood, Twenty Years Prompter to his Majesty's Company of Comedians of the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, London. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p>
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8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. [16], 259, [1], ff. [2] (plates). Half morocco. Includes engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. A few late 18th-century manuscript notes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Work by bookseller/publisher and play-prompter turned theatrical manager and novelist William Rufus Chetwood (ca. 1688-1766). It contains forgeries concerning early English dramatists, notably Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jonson. See also A. Freeman, “The beginnings of Shakespearean (and Jonsonian) forgery,” in: The Library (2004), September-December, pp. 407-421. See also J.F. Arnott &amp; J.W. Robinson, English theatrical literature, 1559-1900. London, 1970, p. 836.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039118999707861" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>