The history of the English stage : including the lives, characters and amours of the most eminent actors and actresses : with instructions for public speaking : wherein the action and utterance of the bar, stage and pulpit are distinctly considered / by Thomas Betterton.

The history of the English stage : including the lives, characters and amours of the most eminent actors and actresses : with instructions for public speaking : wherein the action and utterance of the bar, stage and pulpit are distinctly considered / by Thomas Betterton.

Rev. / with additional notes by Charles L. Coles.

Boston : Printed by William S. & Henry Spear, 1814.

148 p. ; 21 cm

Not written by Thomas Betterton. Authorship usually ascribed to William Oldys; attributed also to the publisher Edmund Curll, cf. Dict. nat. biog.

First edition published in 1741, by Edmund Curll, London.

With: Memoirs of Miss Anne Oldfield / William Oldys. [Boston : William S. & Henry Spear, 1814]

A compilation by William Oldys and others, partly based on Betterton's papers.

Portrait of Betterton bound in as front.

United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

PN2592 .B5 1814 Cage

Stamp: Bound by R.W. Smith.

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