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Title

As you like it; a comedy, by Shakespeare; as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Regulated from the prompt-book, with permission of the managers, by Mr. Hopkins, prompter. An introduction, and notes critical and illustrative, are added by the authors of the Dramatic censor.

Author

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Publication

London, Printed for J. Bell [etc., etc.] 1773.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gentleman, Francis, 1728-1784.
• Bell, John, 1745-1831.

Description

1 p. ℓ., 75-147 p. front. (port.); 22 cm.

Subject

• Promptbooks

Note

• On cover: Number XII. of Shakespeare; being Bell's edition.
• Introduction and notes by F. Gentleman.
• With numerous manuscript notes.
• John Bell issued, between the years 1773 and 1775 a stage edition of Shakespeare, of which this is v.1.
• "This edition, which professes to present the dramas as they were then played, is characterised by Reed in the Biographia dramatica as the worst that ever appeared of any English author."--Dict. of national biography.

Call Number

*NCP (Shakespeare, W. As you like it. London, 1773)

OCLC

10365080

Author

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Title

As you like it; a comedy, by Shakespeare; as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Regulated from the prompt-book, with permission of the managers, by Mr. Hopkins, prompter. An introduction, and notes critical and illustrative, are added by the authors of the Dramatic censor.

Imprint

London, Printed for J. Bell [etc., etc.] 1773.

Local Note

Shattuck - #4

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Added Author

Gentleman, Francis, 1728-1784.

Bell, John, 1745-1831.

Research Call Number

*NCP (Shakespeare, W. As you like it. London, 1773)