The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature ... - uogenglish

[John] Duncombe’s [acting] edition [of the British theatre]. 67 vols?
[1828–52]. Duncombe.
[Thomas] Richardson’s new minor drama; with remarks, biographical
and critical, by W. T. Moncrieff. 4 vols 1828–31. All plays later
appeared in Cumberland Minor, below, sometimes still under
Richardson imprint. Richardson.
[John] Cumberland’s minor theatre; with remarks biographical and
critical, by D.–G. [i.e. George Daniel]. c. 17 vols [1828–43].
Cumberland Minor.
[John] Miller’s modern acting drama. 1833–7. Noted on several title
pages as agent for the Dramatic Authors’ Soc. Miller.
The acting drama: containing all the popular plays, standard and
modern. 1834.
[John] Duncombe’s minor theatre. 24 nos [one play each] [1834].
Variant title Duncombe’s minor British drama. Duncombe Minor.
[Strange’s] London acting drama. c. 31 nos 1837–8.
[Webster’s] acting national drama; under the auspices of the
Dramatic Authors’ Society. Ed B. N. Webster 18 vols 1837–[59].
Variant title The acting national drama, comprising every
popular new play, farce, melo-drama, opera, burletta, etc, carefully
printed from the acting copies. Webster.
[James] Pattie’s penny play: or weekly acting drama. At least 45 nos
[often several plays to each no] [1838–9]. Later pbd as Pattie’s
modern stage.
[James] Pattie’s universal stage: or theatrical prompt book. More
than 100 nos [one play each] [1839–45]. From no 33 onwards pbd
by William Barth as Barth’s universal stage etc. Absorbed by Lacy,
below. Pattie; Barth.
S[amuel] G[lover] Fairbrother’s edition [of plays]. [c. 1842–54.]
Absorbed by Lacy, below.
The British and American theatre: a choice collection of the most
favorite dramatic pieces of both nations. Ed H. Croll 12 nos
Stuttgart 1842. With notes in Ger.
The modern English comic theatre. Ed L. Hilsenberg, J. A.
Diezemann and C. Albrecht 6 ser Leipzig 1843–[90?]. With notes
in Ger. Mod Eng Com Th.
Modern standard drama: a collection of the most popular acting
plays, with critical remarks, also the stage business, costumes,
etc. Ed Epes Sargent 21 [at least] vols New York and Baltimore
1846–[56?]. Absorbed by French NY, below.
The series of dramatic entertainments performed by royal
command . . . at Windsor Castle 1848–9. Ed B. N. Webster 1849,
[1849]. Dram Ents.
Pownceby’s new acting drama. 1854–5.
Spencer’s Boston theatre. [More than?] 24 vols Boston 1855–8.
Absorbed by French NY, below. Boston Th.
The new British theatre (late Duncombe’s). [c. 1860.] Reprint of
Duncombe’s British theatre by T. H. Lacy, below. New BT.
Sergel’s acting drama. [More than 500 plays] Chicago c. 1860–99 [or
later]. Sergel.
[Thomas Hailes] Lacy’s acting edition of plays, dramas, extravaganzas,
farces etc. Includes sub-series Lacy’s home plays, Lacy’s home
plays for ladies, Sensation series, Anglo-American edn of
standard plays etc. 165 vols [1850–1917]. Pbd as single plays.
Bought by French (London and New York) in 1872 and continued
as French’s acting edition (late Lacy’s). Later pbd variously as
French’s acting edition, French’s standard drama, French’s
international copyrighted edition of the best authors, French’s
standard library edition etc and sub-series Sensation dramas,
Temperance dramas, Fairy plays etc. At least 2 ser were pbd in
New York (French’s American drama, French’s minor drama). For
contents, see Lacy, List of plays wholly or partially the property of
T. H. Lacy, 1864, and Samuel French, Descriptive catalogue of
plays and dramatic works, from c. 1891 etc . . . . French’s [acting]
edition in progress. Lacy; French; French Int Copyr Edn; French NY;
French Minor NY.
Collections of Plays
[John Dicks.] The British drama, illustrated. 4 vols 1864–5.
[John Dicks.] The British drama, illustrated. 12 vols 1864–72. A fuller
version of The British drama, above. Contains 240 plays. Dicks’ BD.
Selections from the modern British dramatists. 2 vols Leipzig 1867.
Drawing-room plays and parlour pantomimes. Ed C. Scott 1870.
De Witt’s acting plays. 21 vols New York [1873?]–84. De Witt.
[John] Dicks’ standard plays, and free acting drama. 1074 nos [some
containing more than one play] [1875–1908]. Mainly comprises
reprints of out-of-copyright plays. Dicks.
The New York drama. 5 vols New York 1875–[80].
Short plays for drawing-room performance. 1890.
Lynn’s acting edition. [At least] 32 nos [1893–6?].
The later English drama. Ed C. S. Brown New York 1898.
Dickinson, T. H. (ed). Chief contemporary dramatists: twenty plays
from the recent drama. Boston and New York 1915, [1921] (2nd
ser), [1930] (3rd ser).
Quinn, A. H. (ed). Representative American plays. New York 1917,
1938 (6th edn).
Moses, M. J. (ed). Representative British drama, Victorian and
modern. Boston 1918 etc, 1931 (new, rev edn). Moses, Boston.
Marriott, J. W. (ed). Great modern British plays. 1929.
Morgan, A. E. (ed). English plays, 1660–1820. New York and London
1935.
Rowell, G. (ed). Nineteenth-century plays. Oxford 1953, London
1972 (2nd edn) (WC). Rowell.
Brings, L. M. (ed). Gay nineties melodramas. Minneapolis 1963.
Booth, M. (ed). Hiss the villain: six English and American
melodramas. 1964. Booth melodramas.
Freedley, G. and A. Nicoll (ed). Nineteenth century English and
American plays. New Canaan CT 1965– . Micro edn. Since 1975 ed
J. Ellis and J. Donohue. Their Readex index catalogues plays
issued 1965–81 inclusive. In progress. Readex micro.
Bailey, J. O. (ed). British plays of the nineteenth century: an
anthology to illustrate the evolution of the drama. New York
1966. Bailey.
Ashley, L. R. N. (ed). Nineteenth-century British drama: an
anthology of representative plays. Glenville IL 1967.
Corrigan, R. (ed). Laurel British drama: the nineteenth century. New
York 1967.
Rowell, G. (ed). Late Victorian plays, 1890–1914. Oxford 1968,
London 1972 (2nd edn). Rowell WC2.
Salerno, H. (ed). English drama in transition: 1880–1914. New York
1968.
Booth, M. (ed). English plays of the nineteenth century. 5 vols
Oxford 1969–76. With substantial introds, rptd separately as
Prefaces to English nineteenth-century theatre, Manchester
[1980]. Booth 1 etc.
Kauvar, G. B. et al. (ed). Nineteenth-century verse drama.
Rutherford, Madison, Teaneck NJ 1973.
Booth, M. (ed). The magistrate and other nineteenth-century plays.
Oxford 1974. Reprints 9 plays from vols 1–4 of his edn above.
Booth.
Kilgarriff, M. (ed). The golden age of melodrama: twelve 19th
century melodramas. 1974. Some texts abridged. Kilgarriff.
Wischhusen, S. (ed). The hour of one: six Gothic melodramas. 1975.
Smith, J. L. (ed). Victorian melodramas: seven English, French and
American melodramas. 1976. Smith.
Lorenzen, R. (ed). Nineteenth-century popular British drama acting
editions. Seattle and London 1977. Micro edn, containing 87 plays
from Univ of Washington Lib. Lorenzen micro.
Wells, S. (ed). Nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques. 5 vols
1977–8. Shakesp bsqs.
Banham, M. and P. Thomson (gen eds). British and American playwrights
1750–1920. [16 vols] Cambridge 1982–7. Individual vols
devoted to selected works by one or, occasionally, two authors.
Gerould, D. C. (ed). American melodramas. New York 1983.
1953 | 1954