Rejected addresses, or, The new theatrum poetarum.

Rejected addresses, or, The new theatrum poetarum.

Rejected addresses

Third edition.

London : Printed for John Miller, 25, Bow-Street, Covent Garden, 1812 ([London] : W. Pople, printer, 67, Chancery Lane)

xiii, [3], 127 p. ; 17 cm

Parodies of contemporary poets by James and Horatio [Horace] Smith.

Addresses submitted in "competition... to be spoken on the opening of Drury Lane Theatre... 10th of October," 1812 (Preface, p. [v].)

Loyal effusion / by W.T.F.
The baby's debut / by W.W.
An address without a phoenix / by S.T.P.
Cui bono / by Lord B.
Hampshire farmer's address / by W.C.
The living lustres / by T.M.
The rebuilding / by R.S.
Drury's dirge / by L.M.
A tale of Drury Lane / by W.S.
Johnson's ghost
The beautiful incendiary / by the Hon. W.S.
Fire and ale / by M.G.L.
Playhouse musings / by S.T.C.
Drury's hustings
Architectural atoms / by Dr. B.
Theatrical alarm bell / by M.P.
The theatre / by the Rev. G.C.
Macbeth travestie / by M.M.
Stranger travestie / by Do.
George Barnwell travestie / by Do.
Punch's apotheosis / by T.H.

Great Britain -- England -- London, -- manufacture place, -- publication place.

PR3991.J8 item 2 Cage

Leather boards. Gilt spine title. Stamp, front endpapers: Edward Dowden Library. Manuscript autograph: John [Upham?]. Manuscript table of contents on front endpapers. Bound second in a volume with three other works. Manuscript annotation on title page: By the two Smiths, [illegible]. Names of authors being parodied written in manuscript in the table of contents and at the head of each poem.

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