Research Catalog

Title

Romeo and Juliet; a tragedy, 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 John Bell, 1773.

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

1 p.l., 83-152 p.; 12mo.

Subject

• Promptbooks

Note

• Introduction and notes by F. Gentleman.
• John Bell issued a stage edition of Shakespeare between the years 1773 and 1775, of which this is v. 2.
• "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.

Reproduction (note)

• Microfilm.

Call Number

*NCP (Shakespeare, W. Romeo and Juliet. London, 1773)

OCLC

• 23798258
• 44753386

Author

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Title

Romeo and Juliet; a tragedy, 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 John Bell, 1773.

Reproduction

Microfilm. New York : New York Public Library, 1982. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm. (MN *ZZ-18750)

Local Note

With numerous manuscript notes and insertions.

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Added Author

Gentleman, Francis, 1728-1784.

Bell, John, 1745-1831.

Research Call Number

*NCP (Shakespeare, W. Romeo and Juliet. London, 1773)

*ZC-164