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British theatre (1825) The British theatre, or, A collection of plays which are acted at the Theatres Royal Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Haymarket / printed under the authority of the managers, from the prompt books ; with biographical and critical remarks, by Mrs. Inchbald.

[1825]

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British theatre (1825)

British theatre (1825)

The British theatre, or, A collection of plays which are acted at the Theatres Royal Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Haymarket / printed under the authority of the managers, from the prompt books ; with biographical and critical remarks, by Mrs. Inchbald.

London :

Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and Brown,

[1825]

25 v. : ill. ; 17 cm.

English drama.

Acting editions -- England -- London -- 1825.

Covent Garden Theatre.

Cookesley, W. G. (William Gifford), 1802-1880, former owner.

Sparks, C. A., former owner.

Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.

Crooke, former owner.

Drury Lane Theatre.

Haymarket Theatre (London, England)

A collection of 125 plays, each with special t. p. and separate paging; the engraved frontispieces of most of the plays are variously dated from 1806 to 1825.

v. 1. The comedy of errors ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ; King John ; King Richard III / by William Shakspeare -- v. 2. King Henry IV, the first part ; King Henry IV, the second part ; The merchant of Venice ; King Henry V ; Much ado about nothing / by William Shakspeare -- v. 3. As you like it ; The merry wives of Windsor ; King Henry VIII ; Measure for measure ; A winter's tale / by William Shakspeare -- v. 4. King Lear ; Cymbeline ; Macbeth ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra / by William Shakspeare -- v. 5. Coriolanus, or, the Roman matron ; Othello, the Moor of Venice ; The tempest, or, The enchanted isle ; Twelfth night, or, What you will / by William Shakspeare ; Every man in his humour / by Ben Jonson -- v. 6. Rule a wife and have a wife ; The chances / by Beaumont and Fletcher ; A new way to pay old debts / by Philip Massinger ; The rival queens, or, The death of Alexander the Great / by Nathaniel Lee ; All for love, or, The world well lost / by John Dryden -- v. 7. Isabella, or, The fatal marriage ; Oroonoko / by Thomas Southern ; The distressed mother / by Ambrose Philips ; Zara / by Aaron Hill ; Gustavus Vasa, or, The deliverer of his country / by Henry Brooke -- v. 8. The constant couple, or, A trip to the jubilee ; The inconstant ; The recruiting officer ; The beaux strategem / by George Farquhar ; Cato / by Joseph Addison -- v. 9. The provoked wife / by John Vanbrugh ; The provoked husband, or, A journey to London / by J. Vanbrugh and C. Cibber ; Love makes a man, or, The fop's fortune ; She wou'd and she wou'd not ; The careless husband / by Colley Cibber -- v. 10. Tamerlane ; The fair penitent ; Jane Shore ; Lady Jane Grey / by Nicholas Rowe ; The siege of Damascus / by John Hughes -- v. 11. The busy body ; The wonder!, a woman keeps a secret ; A bold stroke for a wife / by Mrs. Centlivre ; George Barnwell ; Fatal curiosity / by George Lillo -- v. 12. The orphan, or, The unhappy marriage ; Venice preserved, or, A plot discovered / by Thomas Otway ; The concious lovers / by Richard Steele ; The revenge / by Edward Young ; The beggar's opera / by John Gay -- v. 13. Love for love ; The mourning bride / by William Congreve ; Mahomet, the imposter / by Mr. Miller ; Tancred and Sigismunda / by James Thomson ; The suspicious husband / by Dr. Hoadly.

v. 14. The man of the world / by Charles Macklin ; The foundling ; The gamester / by Edward Moore ; The Roman father / by William Whitehead ; Edward the Black Prince, or, The Battle of Poictiers -- v. 15. Barbarossa / by Doctor Brown ; The way to keep him ; All in the wrong ; The Grecian daughter ; Know your own mind / by Arthur Murphy -- v. 16. The country girl / by David Garrick ; The jealous wife / by George Colman ; The clandestine marriage / by G. Colman and D. Garrick ; The Countess of Salisbury / by Hall Hartson -- v. 17. The goodnatured man ; She stoops to conquer / by Dr. Goldsmith ; Love in a village ; The maid of the mill ; Lionel and Clarissa / by Isaac Bickerstaff -- v. 18. The brothers ; The West Indian ; The Jew ; First love ; The wheel of fortune / by Richard Cumberland -- v. 19. The Earl of Warwick / by Dr. Franklin ; The rivals ; The duenna / by Richard Brinsley Sheridan ; The belle's strategem ; A bold stroke for a husband / by Mrs. Cowley -- v. 20. The dramatist, or, Stop him who can / by Frederick Reynolds ; The Count of Narbonne / by Robert Jephson ; Inkle and Yarico ; The battle of Hexham, or, Days of old ; The surrender of Calais / by George Colman -- v. 21. The mountaineers ; The iron chest ; The heir at law ; John Bull, or, The Englishman's fireside ; The poor gentleman / by George Colman -- v. 22. The castle of Andalusia ; Fontainbleau ; Wild oats, or, The strolling gentlemen / by John O'Keeffe ; The heiress / by General Burgoyne ; The Earl of Essex / by Henry Jones -- v. 23. Such things are ; Every one has his fault ; Wives as they were, maids as they are ; Lovers' vows ; To marry, or not to marry / by Mrs. Inchbald -- v. 24. The road to ruin ; The deserted daughter / by Thomas Holcroft ; The stranger / translated ... by Benjamin Thompson ; De Monfort / by Joanna Baillie ; The point of honour / by Charles Kemble -- v. 25. The way to get married ; A cure for the heart-ache ; Speed the plough ; The school of reform, or, How to rule a husband / by Thomas Morton ; The honey moon / by John Tobin.

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