Xerxes. a Tragedy. as It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Colley Cibber, Esq

Xerxes. a Tragedy. as It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Colley Cibber, Esq
Author: COLLEY. CIBBER
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781379710226

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T026029 Also issued as part of: 'The dramatick works of Colley Cibber', vol. 1, London, 1754. London: printed for W. Feales, 1736. 68p.; 12°

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 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."