Plays about the Theatre in England, 1737-1800

Or, The Self-conscious Stage from Foote to Sheridan

• Author(s): Dane Farnsworth Smith, M. L. Lawhon,
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Pages: 293
• ISBN_10: 0838720749
  ISBN_13: 9780838720745
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism ,

Description:... This work is the late author's manuscript abridged and edited by M. L. Lawhon. It follows his earlier volume of similar title for the years 1671-1737, continuing that study through the remainder of the eighteenth century. In addition to Sheridan's Critic, the book treats little-known plays of the lesser playwrights of the period. Illustrated.