Title: [The] British Theatre. Containing the lives of the English Dramatic Poets; with an Account of all their plays. Together with the lives of most of the Principal Actors, as well as Poets. To which is prefixed, A short View of the Rise [...]
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> [The] British Theatre. Containing the lives of the English Dramatic Poets; with an Account of all their plays. Together with the lives of most of the Principal Actors, as well as Poets. To which is prefixed, A short View of the Rise and Progress of the English stage. </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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12mo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. [2], xvi, [6], 200, [28], ff. [2] (blank). Quarter calf. Marbled boards, spine with yellow gilded panel. Repair on upper margin of title page with minor loss of text.</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;">Sheets of the Dublin edition of 1750 (see Bib# 4103123/Fr# 459 in this collection) of this work by bookseller/publisher and play-prompter turned theatrical manager and novelist William Rufus Chetwood (ca. 1688-1766), reissued with a new title page. It contains forgeries concerning early English dramatists, notably Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jonson. See also ESTC, T088606; A. Freeman, “The beginnings of Shakespearean (and Jonsonian) forgery,” in: The Library (2004), September-December, pp. 407-421.</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/alma991039119059707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>