Microform Collection

Title: English and American drama of the nineteenth century, 1801-1900
Call Number: MICROCARD 8
Publisher: London. Readex, 1965-
Description: 25,000 cards

Subject(s):

English drama - 19th century
American drama - 19th century
English drama - 19th century - Bibliography
American drama - 19th century - Bibliography
English and American plays of the nineteenth century

Notes: The collection includes every play published in the English language from the year 1801 through 1900 and in the United States from 1831 through 1900 in printed and manuscript form, whether it be a historical drama, melodrama, comic opera, an unperformed poetic play, pantomime, extravaganza, satiric comedy or burletta. It covers manuscripts, prompt books, acting editions, and published plays. It also includes 19th century translations of foreign plays (from the ancient Greece to Ibsen). In the English collection, prolific authors such as Dion Boucicault, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, W.S. Gilbert, Henry Arthur Jones, John Maddison Morton, Tom Taylor are represented not only by their handful of best known plays, but by the great bulk of their published work. Major works of poets like Browning, Byron. Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Swinburne are represented by their usually less than distinguished attempts at playwriting. Among American plays both a standard library edition (or an acting edition) of a play and a prompt book of a contemporary performance is included, e.g., David Belasco, Madame Butterfly; Augustin Daly, Under the Gaslight (and more than 50 other stage pieces either written or adapted by Daly), etc. The American Collection is rich in temperance drama and plays on such topical matters as slavery and the Civil War.

Reviewed in: Microform Review 1 (4) : 298-300, 1972

Dodson, S.C. Microform Research Collections: A Guide
Mansell Information Publishing. London. 1978. p.105

Continued by: Nineteenth Century Drama

Publication type: Plays
Country: England, America
Time period: 1801-1900

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