A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
By:Philip H. Highfill, Jr.,Kalman A. Burnim,Edward A. Langhans
Published on 1973-12 by SIU Press

To be completed in 12 volumes, this monumental work here begins publica\u00adtion with the first two volumes—Abaco to Bertie and Bertin to Byzard. When completed, it is expected that the bio\u00adgraphical dictionary will include informa\u00adtion on more than 8,500 individuals. Hundreds of printed sources have been searched for this project, and dozens of repositories combed, and the names of personnel listed have been filtered through parish registers whenever possible. From published and unpublished sources, from wills, archives of professional societies and guilds, from records of colleges, uni\u00adversities, and clubs, and from the contri\u00adbutions of selfless scholars, the authors have here assembled material which il\u00adluminates theatrical and musical activity in London in the 1660–1800 period. The information here amassed will doubtless be augmented by other spe\u00adcialists in Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre and drama, but it is not likely that the number of persons now known surely or conjectured finally to have been connected with theatrical en\u00adterprise in this period will ever be in\u00adcreased considerably. Certainly, the contributions made here add immeasurably to existing knowledge, and in a number of instances correct standard histories or reference works. The accompanying illustrations, esti\u00admated to be some 1,400 likenesses—at least one picture of each subject for whom a portrait exists—may prove to be a use\u00adful feature of the Work. The authors have gone beyond embellishment of the text, and have attempted to list all origi\u00adnal portraits any knowledge of which is now recoverable, and have tried to ascer\u00adtain the present location of portraits in every medium.

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