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Drama
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The prompter and the footlights: a music hall and theatrical review.
No 1 [1889].
The weekly comedy: a review of the drama, music and literature.
Nos 1–11 1889. Ed J. T. Grein and C. W. Jarvis.
The foot-lights. Nos 1–11 1890.
The actor. No 1 1891.
Dramatic opinions: an impartial weekly leaflet for players and playgoers.
Nos 1–28 1891–2. Weekly, nos 26–8 monthly.
The encore: a music hall and theatrical review. Nos 1–1,972
1892–1930. Weekly.
The sporting and dramatic mirror. n.s. no 1 1892. Continued as The
sporting mirror and dramatic and music hall record, n.s. nos
2–441 1892–1900, weekly.
The prompter: the organ of the Scottish amateur dramatic and
musical federation. Nos 1–5 Glasgow 1892–3. Monthly.
Continued as The prompter: an illustrated dramatic and musical
record, n.s. nos 1–21 1893, monthly until end July, then weekly.
Birmingham amusements and souvenir of the stage. Nos 2–65
[Manchester and Birmingham] 1893–4.
The theatrical ‘world’ for 1893. 1893–7. Annually. By W. Archer 1893–4.
Paisley society and dramatic mirror. Nos 1–3 Paisley [1894]. Weekly.
The Glasgow pantomime annual and theatrical review. Glasgow
1894–5. Continued as The Glasgow theatrical annual, 1895–1901,
annually.
The dramatic world: a monthly epitome of the stage. Vols 1–3
1894–7. Continued as The dramatic illustrated world, vols 3–9
1897–1902, monthly. Ed E. and H. Gordon-Clifford.
The graphic guide to the London theatres. Nos 1–7 1894.
Pearson’s photographic portfolio of footlight favourites by eminent
photographers. Nos 1–8 1894–5; n.s. nos 1–5 1895–6. Monthly.
Boorman’s theatrical directory of the United Kingdom, 1895. Vol 1
1895.
The dramatic times: the only organ devoted to amateur theatricals.
Nos 1–13 1895. Fortnightly.
The London Bridge theatre diary and amusement list. Nos 2–7 1895.
Monthly.
The Glasgow harlequin. Nos 1–5 Glasgow [1895–6]. Weekly.
The stage news: the new theatrical paper. Nos 1–2 Glasgow 1897.
Weekly. Continued as The stage news and musical notes, nos 3–8
1897.
The playgoer: a journal of amusement. Nos 1–14 1897–8. Weekly.
The programme and playbill. Nos 1–197 1898–9. Daily.
Theatrical and music hall life. No 1 1898.
The theatrical public guide. Nos 1–7 1898. Monthly.
Theatrical and public life. Nos 1–8 1898–9. Monthly, weekly in Mar.
Variety and ‘variety critic’. Nos 1–13 1898. Weekly. Ed Bernard
Hounsell.
The Anglo-French stage chronicle. Nos 1–2 1899. Every Friday.
Continued as The Anglo-French chronicle: political, literary and
theatrical, no 3 1899, every Saturday, bilingual.
Beltaine: the organ of the Irish literary theatre. No 1–3 1899–1900.
Ed W. B. Yeats.
Footlights: the bulletin of the London and New York dramatic
exchange. No 1 1899.
The Irish playgoer. Nos 1–30 Dublin 1899–1900.
The London theatre, entertainment and concert guide. Nos [1]–16
1900–1. Continued as The London theatre, concert and fine art
guide, nos 17–623, weekly from no 2.
For further titles to this summary list, see C. J. Stratman, A bibliography of
British dramatic periodicals 1962; and J. F. Arnott and J. W. Robinson,
English theatrical literature 1559–1900; a bibliography, 1969. [bjo’c]
(8) collections of plays
The plays to be found in many of the early collections listed were usually sold
individually as well as in bound vols. In the larger edns there are occasional
discrepancies between extant bound sets. For more information on some
principal British nineteenth-century acting edns and the problems of
bibliographical description, see two articles by R. C. Rhodes, Library 4th ser
16 1936. See also Nicoll 7, pp. 357–64, and Readex Index, pp. 314–36. The
short titles given at the end of entries are used throughout the Drama
section.
The British drama: comprehending the best plays in the English
language. 3 vols London and Edinburgh 1804.
The English and American stage. 35 vols New York 1807.
The British theatre: or a collection of plays, which are acted at the
theatres royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket. Ed
E. Inchbald 25 vols 1808; 20 vols 1824 (new edn). Inchbald.
A collection of farces and other afterpieces which are acted at the
theatres royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden and Haymarket. Ed
E. Inchbald 7 vols 1809, 1815. Inchbald Farces.
The modern theatre: a collection of successful modern plays, as
acted at the theatres royal, London. Ed E. Inchbald 10 vols 1811.
Inchbald Mod Th.
The rejected theatre: or a collection of dramas which have been
offered for representation but declined by the managers of the
playhouses. [c. 15 nos] 1814.
The new British theatre: a selection of original dramas, not yet
acted; some of which have been offered for representation, but
not accepted; with critical remarks by the editor [John Galt]. 4
vols 1814–15. An expanded version of The rejected theatre, above.
The London theatre. Ed T. J. Dibdin 12 vols 1815.
The London theatre: a collection of the most celebrated dramatic
pieces, correctly given, from copies used in the theatres. Ed T.
Dibdin 26 vols 1815–18. An expanded version of The London
theatre, above.
The British drama: a collection of the most esteemed dramatic productions,
with biography of the respective authors, and critique
on each play. Ed R. Cumberland 14 vols 1817.
The new English drama. Ed W. Oxberry; with prefatory remarks,
stage business and stage directions. Issued as separate plays, two
per month, with dated title pages, 1818–24, 20 vols (also 21, 22-vol
sets) 1818–25; (as Oxberry’s edition and in different vol
configuration) Boston 1819–26?. Oxberry.
[John] Duncombe’s new acting drama. 12 nos [one play each] 1821–5.
[Thomas] Dolby’s British theatre. 12 vols 1823–5. Contains 84 plays,
each with separate title page. Continued as Cumberland, below,
with same vol nos. Dolby.
The British drama: a collection of the most approved tragedies,
comedies, operas, and farces. 2 vols 1824.
The British drama: a collection of the most esteemed tragedies,
comedies, operas and farces in the English language. 2 vols
1824–6, 1828–9, 1831; Philadelphia 1832, 1833, 1837, 1838, 1842,
1850, 1854, 1859. A variant of the above. BD.
The London stage: a collection of the most reputed tragedies, comedies,
operas, melo-dramas, farces, and interludes. 4 vols
[1824–7]. LSt.
[John] Cumberland’s British theatre, with remarks, biographical
and critical, by D.–G. [i.e. George Daniel]. 48 vols 1826–[55?].
Contains 398 plays, each with separate title page, but including
many originally issued in Dolby, above, and several in
Cumberland Minor, below. From c. 1849 pbd as Davidson’s
shilling volume of Cumberland’s plays by G. H. Davidson, who
amalgamated Cumberland and Cumberland Minor, and
assigned new vol nos. Absorbed by Lacy, below. Cumberland.
The acting American theatre. [Ed M. Lopez] Philadelphia 1826–?.
British theatre: comprising tragedies, comedies, operas and farces;
with biography, critical account and explanatory notes by an
Englishman [Owen Williams]. Leipzig 1828; London 1830, 1831
(2nd edn).
Ames series of standard and minor drama. Compiled and pbd by A.
D. Ames, Clyde OH. 180?– .