The new English drama, with prefatory remarks, biographical sketches, and notes, critical and explanatory " : being the only edition existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as performed at the Theatres Royal / ed. by W. Oxberry, comedian.
1818
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Title
The new English drama, with prefatory remarks, biographical sketches, and notes, critical and explanatory " : being the only edition existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as performed at the Theatres Royal / ed. by W. Oxberry, comedian.
Created/published
London : Pub. for the proprietors by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1818-25.
Description
21 v. : ports. ; 18 cm
Associated name
Note
No general title-page. At head of title-page for each play: Oxberry's edition.
Remarks by William Hazlitt and others.
113 plays, each with special title page and frontispiece, originally issued separately, two a month.
Remarks by William Hazlitt and others.
113 plays, each with special title page and frontispiece, originally issued separately, two a month.
Partial contents
Contents of the Miscellaneous volumes, listing only those volumes and plays which are not duplicates: Misc. v. 1. Know your mind / A. Murphy (1821). Wheel of fortune / R. Cumberland (1820). Macbeth / W. Shakespeare (1821). The stranger / B. Thompson [from Kotzbue] (1820). Wild oats / J. O'Keeffe (1820)
Misc. v. 3. Richard the Third / W. Shakespeare (1819). Hamlet / W. Shakespeare (1820)
Misc. v. 4. The rivals / R.B. Sheridan (1820). Venice preserved / T. Otway (1820)
Misc. v. 5. Every man in his humour / [altered from B. Jonson] by D. Garrick (1822). Evadne / R. Sheil (1821)
Misc. v. 6. Cato / J. Addison (1823). Julius Caesar / W. Shakespeare (1822). Man of the world / C. Macklin (1822). Jealous wife / G. Colman (1822).
Misc. v. 3. Richard the Third / W. Shakespeare (1819). Hamlet / W. Shakespeare (1820)
Misc. v. 4. The rivals / R.B. Sheridan (1820). Venice preserved / T. Otway (1820)
Misc. v. 5. Every man in his humour / [altered from B. Jonson] by D. Garrick (1822). Evadne / R. Sheil (1821)
Misc. v. 6. Cato / J. Addison (1823). Julius Caesar / W. Shakespeare (1822). Man of the world / C. Macklin (1822). Jealous wife / G. Colman (1822).
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Call number
PR1243 .O8 1818 Cage
Folger-specific note
Folger has only v. 1-12 and 8 v. of miscellaneous plays from the set, including many duplicates. In the Folger set, the general t.p. misbound after t.p. for second play in v. 5, and lacking in v. 12; some frontispieces also lacking. Miscellaneous volumes, and most individual plays, cataloged separately. Each volume has blind stamp on title page: Garrick Club Library [first play title page for volumes 5-6 and 12]. Each volume has manuscript note on title page verso: Gift of James G. McManaway [first play title page verso for volumes 5-6 and 12].
Folger accession
6.28.47