The Publication of Plays in Eighteenth-Century England: Playwrights, Publishers and the Market

by Robert D. Hume and Judith Milhous

A great deal of bibliographic and historical scholarship has been devoted to English drama up to 1660, but after the renaissance scholarship grows scant: late seventeenth-century plays have received little such attention, and eighteenth-century plays hardly any. This ground-breaking study by two internationally renowned scholars in theater history asks fundamental questions that have often been previously ignored--Who published plays? What was the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712357734
• ISBN13: 9780712357739
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 10.9"