Table of Contents: Full Print and Online content Acknowledgements Table of Contents Introduction: Performing Drama, Performing Culture Theatrical Biographies Restoring the Theatre: 1660-1700 Section Overview John Dryden and William Davenant, The Enchanted Island or The Tempest David Garrick, "Prologue" to The Tempest; an Opera Elizabeth Inchbald, "Preface" to The Tempest Image: John Peter Simon, The Inchanted Island: Before the Cell of Prospero Image: William Hogarth, Scene from The Tempest John Hamilton Mortimer, Caliban, Engraving F.D. Waldron, Excerpt from The Virgin Queen, a Drama in Five Acts; Attempted as a Sequel to Shakspeare’s Tempest. William Wycherley, The Country Wife John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, "The Imperfect Enjoyment" David Garrick, "Preface" to The Country Girl Image: Daniel Marot, "Design for Queen Mary’s China Room." Image: Sir Peter Lely, "Diana Kirke, later Countess of Oxford" Example of Chinese Porcelain, 1662-1722 John Ogborne, Dorothy Jordan in the character of the "Country Girl." Aphra Behn, "The Disappointment" George Etherege, The Man of Mode John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, "A Ramble in St. James Park" Sir Richard Steele, The Spectator, No. 65 (Tuesday, May 15, 1711) Image: Anonymous, Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester John Dennis, "A Defense of Sir Fopling Flutter" John Dryden, All For Love Image: Pierre Mirnard, Portrait of Louise Renee de Keroualle Image: Thomas Hawker, King Charles II Image: Antonio Verrio, The Sea Triumph of Charles II John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, "A Satyr on Charles II" Samuel Johnson, "Dryden" in The Lives of the English Poets John Dryden, "Dedication" and "Preface" to All For Love John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (?), "The Royal Buss" Richard Tompson, after Jacob Huysmans, Catherine of Braganza Andrew Marvell, "On the Statue Erected by Sir Robert Viner" Aphra Behn, The Widdow Ranter Image: Nathaniel Bacon, "Self-Portrait" Ebeneezer Cook, The Sotweed Factor Image: W. Vincent, Anne Bracegirdle as "The Indian Queen" Robert Beverly, "An Account of Bacon’s Rebellion" John Van Brugh, The Relapse Colley Cibber, "Henry Brett and Cibber’s Periwig" from An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber Jeremy Collier, "Remarks on the Relapse" Image: John Simon, Colley Cibber Colley Cibber, Love’s Last Shift Colley Cibber, "Dedication to Pelham" Managing Entertainment, 1700-1760 Section Overview William Congreve, The Way of the World Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage John Vanbrugh A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok'd Wife, from Immorality and Prophaneness William Congreve, AMENDMENTS OF Mr. COLLIER's False and Imperfect CITATIONS William Congreve, "Concerning Humour in Comedy" Samuel Johnson The Lives of Poets S. Harding, Mrs. Bracegirdle link to Jeremy Collier, A Short View Sir John Suckling, "I prithee spare me gentle boy" Sir John Suckling, "There never yet was woman" Susanna Centlivre, The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre, Epistle XL Charles Gildon, A Comparison Between the Two Stages Susanna Centlivre, dedication to The Platonick Lady John Mottley, A Compleat List of All the English Dramatic Poets Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser Review Image: Mr. Munden as Sir Francis Gripe Thomas King as Marplot Advertisement in Evelina Botany Bay Playbill Clarence Brown Production Munden as Sir Francis Gripe John Rich, The Necromancer, or Harlequin Doctor Faustus and John Thurmond, Harlequin Doctor Faustus "Harlequin & Punch Kick Apollo Out" Print from The Necromancer Exploits of Harlequin John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera Image: Portrait of M. Walker in the Character of Cap’n Macheath Songs from Wit and Mirth Image: Harlequin Sheppard Henry Carey, "Polly Peachum" Image: William Hogarth, Plate 3, A Harlot’s Progress Boswell, London Journal Excerpt from the St. James Chronicle or the British Evening Post James Boswell The Life of Johnson Image: "Performed at a Little Theatre with Great Applause" Polly in Weekly Gazeteer Pepusch overture image Pepusch score image Beggar’s Opera recordings Newgate Calendar Zadok the Priest Morning Chronicle reprint of Swift on Beggar’s Opera Bannister as Polly Peachum Hogarth, Scene from Beggar’s Opera Henry Fielding, The Author’s Farce Image: William Hogarth, "A Just View of the British Stage" Image: "The Player’s Last Refuge" Excerpt from The Licensing Act of 1737 Joseph Addison, "The Puppet Show" Links to songs from Author’s Farce George Lillo, The London Merchant Excerpt from the Ballad of George Barnwell Image: The London Merchant or the History of George Barnwell, represented from the most particular moving incidents in that play The London Evening Post notice Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Gazetteer and London Daily Advertiser Image: William Hogarth, Industry and Idleness Plate 1 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Charles Dickens, from Great Expectations Ken Jaworowskijan Review, The London Merchant, 2012 The Ballad of George Barnwell (full) Blumenau London Merchant Richardson, Apprentice’s Vade Mecum Hogarth, Industry and Idleness Samuel Foote, The Minor (1760) The London Chronicle 1760 October 21-23 Samuel Foote, The Diversions of a Morning Image: Henry Overton and Amedé Van Loo, "The Reverend George Whitefield" Image: William Hogarth, Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism Image: Foote as Mrs. Cole The Public Ledger 1760 The London Chronicle 1760 Foote, the Devil and Polly Pattens Whitefield at Leeds Squintum’s Farewell The Retort Miss Macaroni Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions, 1760-1800 Section Overview David Garrick, The Jubilee Review, Public Advertiser, Oct. 17, 1769 Garrick’s Ode to Shakespeare Image: Benjamin Van der Gucht, Mr. Garrick as Steward of the Stratford Jubilee, September 1769 Image: Mr. Garrick delivering his Ode at Drury Lane Theatre…. Image: The Principal Characters in the Procession of the Pageant exhibited in the Jubilee…at Drury Lane Theatre The Jubilee Celebrations in the Newspapers Further reviews of the play Songs from Garrick’s The Jubilee Print controversy concerning the Ode Ticket to Shakespeare’s Jubilee Jubilee Booth Jubilee Medallion Mr. Garrick reciting his Ode Ticket to Shakespeare’s Jubilee Frances Abington as Thalia Richard Cumberland, The West Indian Goldsmith, "A Description . . . " Image: William Dickinson (after John Hamilton Mortimer), Mr. Parsons and Mr. Moody in the characters of Varland and Major O’Flaherty, in the ‘West Indian’, mezzotint, 1776. Image: The Middle Temple Macaroni. In short I am a West Indian!, from The Macaroni Scavoir Vivre and Theatrical Magazine, July 1773, 511, etching. Newspaper reviews on The West Indian Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer William Woodfall, review Goldsmith "An Essay…" Image: Portrait of Mr Shuter and Mrs Green as Mr and Mrs Hardcastle and Mr Quick as Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer, mezzotint, 1775. Newspaper Reviews and Notices of She Stoops to Conquer Horace Walpole’s letter "Mr. Quick in the character of Tony Lumpkin" Richard Brinsley Sher
