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"The stage's glory" John Rich, 1692-1761 /

Table of Contents: “…Hume -- The finances of an eighteenth-century theatre : the Lincoln's Inn Fields Company under John Rich in 1724-1725 / Judith Milhous -- What the prompter saw : the diary of Rich's prompter, John Stede / David Hunter -- John Rich, theatrical regulation, and the dilemma of the commercial stage / Matthew J. Kinservik -- Dance theatre. John Rich, French dancing, and English pantomimes / Moira Goff -- Harlequin choreographies : repetition, difference, and representation / Linda J. …”
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Stage mothers : women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 /

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Staging Governance : Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770–1800 / by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

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The mind/body stage passion and interaction in the Cartesian theatre / by Gobert, R. Darren

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The French Revolution and the London stage, 1789-1805 by Taylor, George, 1940-

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Treading the bawds actresses and playwrights on the late-Stuart stage / by Bush-Bailey, Gilli

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The lively arts of the London stage, 1675-1725 /

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Character's theater genre and identity on the eighteenth-century English stage / by Freeman, Lisa A.

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A race of female patriots women and public spirit on the British stage, 1688-1745 / by Wilson, Brett D., 1971-

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John Gay and the London theatre / by Winton, Calhoun

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Marketing the bard Shakespeare in performance and print, 1660-1740 / by Dugas, Don-John, 1967-

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history 1625-1800.…”
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European Shakespeares translating Shakespeare in the Romantic Age /

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history Europe Congresses.…”
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Persistence of Folly : On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature / by Lande, Joel B.

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Entertaining the nation : American drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / by Miller, Tice L.

Table of Contents: “…British drama and the colonial American stage -- American drama of the new republic -- Drama in the age of Jackson -- The age of melodrama -- Realism and American drama.…”
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Jefferson's shadow the story of his science / by Thomson, Keith Stewart

Table of Contents: “…Useful knowledge -- pt. 5. The national stage -- pt. 6. Philosophical issues.…”
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Rival queens actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / by Nussbaum, Felicity

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: at stage's edge -- The economics of celebrity -- Real, beautiful women: rival queens -- Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue -- Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract -- The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive -- The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington -- The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington -- Epilogue: contracted virtue.…”
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Buying into the world of goods early consumers in backcountry Virginia / by Martin, Ann Smart, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…In backcountry time -- The business of revolutions: John Hook and the Atlantic world : William Meade's Scottish clock -- Getting the goods: local acquisition in a tobacco economy : the iron plate -- Accounting for life: objects, names, and numbers : the ledger -- Living the backcountry: styles and standards : the Wade cabin in backcountry time -- Setting the stage, playing the part: stores as consumption spaces : ribbons of desire -- Suckey's looking glass: African Americans as consumers : mirrors and meanings -- Country gentleman in a new country: John Hook's beef.…”
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Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World : The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700 -1850 /

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From Goethe to Novalis : studies in classicism and romanticism : festschrift for Dennis F. Mahoney in celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday /

Table of Contents: “…The myth of death and resurrection in Heinrich von Ofterdingen -- Double into doppelgänger: the genesis of the doppelgänger motif in the novels of Jean Paul and E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Stages of enligthenment: Lessing's Nathan der Weise and Novalis' Heinrich von Ofterdingen -- A "schützenkönig" for Kuhschnappel: social reality and wish projection in Jean Paul's Siebenkäs -- Human history as natural history in Heinrich von Ofterdingen and Die Llehrlinge zu Sais -- "Was nicht ist, kann noch werden": proverbs and early German romanticism -- Old, new, and (un)known worlds: history and fiction in Achim von Arnim's Die Kronenwächter and Edward P. …”
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

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