Catalog

Catalog
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. Rare Book Room
Publisher:
Total Pages: 818
Release: 1972
Genre: Rare books
ISBN:

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1981
Genre: Catalogs, Booksellers'
ISBN:

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber
Author: Colley Cibber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1889
Genre: Actors
ISBN:

Contains the best account of the theatre of his day and is an invaluable study of the art of acting as it was practiced by his contemporaries.

The Historical Register

The Historical Register
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2018-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9780344309106

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The London Merchant

The London Merchant
Author: George Lillo
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1965-01-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780803253650

Mrs. Millwood is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious, but London gives her no means of support except to seduce men. Love for her leads eighteen-year-old Barnwell to deceit, theft, and murder. "What are your laws," Mrs. Millwood asks, "but the fool?s wisdom and the coward?s valor, the instrument and screen of all your villainies by which you punish in others what you act out yourselves, had you been in their circumstances? The judge who condemns the poor man for being a thief had been a thief himself, had he been poor. Thus you go on deceiving and being deceived, harassing, plaguing, and destroying one another, but women are your universal prey." First performed in 1731, The London Merchant became on of the most popular plays of the century. A chronicler of the age, Theophilus Cibber called it "almost a new species of tragedy."