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5
Drama
i. General introduction
Mss of plays submitted to the Lord Chamberlain in the first quarter of the
century are in the Larpent Collection in the Huntington; those of plays
submitted during the rest of the century, from 1824 have now been deposited
by the Lord Chamberlain in the BL. See below, D. MacMillan (1939) and
British Museum (1964). The remainder of the plays are in the process of
formal cataloguing.
(1) bibliographies etc
Baker, D. E., I. Reed and S. Jones. Biographia dramatica. 3 vols in 4
1812.
[Genest, J.] Some account of the English stage from 1660 to 1830. 10
vols Bath 1832, rptd New York [1965].
Ledger, E. et al. The Era Almanack. 1868–1917. Annual.
Pascoe, C. E. Our actors and actresses: the dramatic list, a record of
the performances of living actors and actresses of the British
stage. 1879, 1880 (enlarged edn), rptd New York 1969.
Lowe, R. W. A bibliographical account of English theatrical literature
from the earliest times to the present. 1888, rptd Detroit 1966.
Archer, W. The theatrical ‘world’ for 1893–1897. 5 vols [1894]–8.
Cameron, J. A bibliography of Scottish theatrical literature. Trans
Edinburgh Bibl Soc I 1896; suppl ibid.
Adams, W. D. A dictionary of the drama: a guide to the plays, playwrights,
players, and playhouses of the United Kingdom and
America, from the earliest times to the present. Vol 1 (A–G) 1904,
Philadelphia 1904, rptd New York nd. Only 1 vol issued.
Hunt, B. et al. (ed). The green room book. 4 edns 1906–9. Ed J.
Parker from 1907 and continued as Who’s who in the theatre,
below.
‘Clarence, Reginald’ (H. J. Eldridge).‘The stage’ cyclopaedia: a bibliography
of plays. 1909, rptd New York 1970. An alphabetical list
of plays with dates of first London productions.
Parker, J. (ed). Who’s who in the theatre: a biographical record of the
contemporary stage. 1912 etc; 1967 (14th edn, ed F. Gaye), 1977
(16th edn, ed I. Herbert with C. Baxter), 1978 (concise 16th edn).
Contains lists of casts, long ‘runs’ and much other valuable
information.
Dramatic compositions copyrighted in the United States 1870 to
1916. 2 vols Washington 1918.
O’Neill, J. J. A bibliographical account of Irish theatrical literature.
Dublin 1920.
Firkins, I. T. E. Index to plays 1800–1926. New York 1927; suppl New
York 1935.
Kent, V. (comp). The player’s library and bibliography of the theatre.
1930. Reissued 1950, with suppls 1951, 1954, 1956, as The player’s
library: the catalogue of the library of the British Drama League.
Gilder, R. and G. Freedley. Theatre collections in libraries and
museums: an international hand book. New York 1936.
Rhodes, R. C. The early nineteenth-century drama. Library 4th ser
16 1936. Two articles. On play series.
Sper, F. The periodical press of London: theatrical and literary,
excluding the daily newspaper 1800–30. Boston 1938.
Macmillan, D. Catalogue of the Larpent plays in the Huntington
Library. San Marino CA 1939.
Pearce, E. The Larpent plays: additions and corrections. HLQ 6 1943.
Corrections to Macmillan, above.
Stone, M. W. Unrecorded plays published by William West. TN 1
1946.
Forsyth, G. Notes on pantomime with a list of Drury Lane pantomimes
1879–1914. TN 2 1947.
Loewenberg, A. The theatre of the British Isles excluding London: a
bibliography. 1950.
The player’s library: the catalogue of the library of the British
Drama League. 1950; suppls 1951, 1954, 1956.
Hartnoll, P. (ed). The Oxford companion to the theatre. Oxford 1951,
1957, 1967, 1983 (4th edn).
Nicoll, A. A history of English drama 1660–1900. 6 vols Cambridge
1952–9. Vol 4 Early nineteenth-century drama 1800–1850,
Cambridge 1955 (2nd edn); vol 5 Late nineteenth-century drama
1850–1900, Cambridge 1959 (2nd edn). Rev edn in 6 vols
Cambridge 1965–7. Originally pbd as A history of early nineteenth
century drama 1800–1850, 2 vols Cambridge 1930 and A
history of late nineteenth century drama, 2 vols Cambridge 1946.
Cited throughout this section as Nicoll.
Enciclopedia dello spettaculo. 9 vols Rome 1954–62.
Townsend, F. G. et al. Victorian bibliography. VS 1 1957–8 to date.
Annual.
Youngs, O. E. B. Important articles on the theatre in the Times
Literary Supplement, 1902–1956. Theatre Research 1 1958.
Stratman, C. J. Additions to Allardyce Nicoll’s handlist of plays
1800–18. N & Q 206, June 1961.
Stratman, C. J. A bibliography of British dramatic periodicals. New
York 1962.
Stratman, C. J. English tragedy 1819–23. PQ 41 1962.
British Museum. Catalogue of additions to the manuscripts: plays
submitted to the Lord Chamberlain 1824–51, Additional manuscripts
42865–43038. 1964.
Stratman, C. J. Bibliography of English printed tragedy 1565–1900.
Carbondale IL 1966.
Taylor, J. R. The Penguin dictionary of the theatre. 1967.
Levitt, P. M. The well-made problem play: a selective bibliography.
ELT 11 1968.
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