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Anthony Aston, Stroller and Adventurer
Excerpt from Anthony Aston, Stroller and Adventurer: To Which Is Appended Aston's Brief Supplement to Colley Cibber's Lives; And a Sketch of the Life of Anthony Aston, Written by Himself This paucity of information about Aston is the more surprising, inasmuch as during his own lifetime, he was so universally known in England and Ireland that his name was a mere byword that wanted no explaining. Not only had he played in all the Theatres in London, but he was as well known in every town as the post horse that carries the mail. Probably no actor of his time, with the possible exception of Dog get, was known to so many people. Nearly every one who could raise a shilling for the pur pose had bee...
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 1, Abaco to Belfille
Tobe completed in 12volumes, this monumental work here begins publication with the first two volumes--Abaco to Bertie and Bertin to Byzard. When completed, it is expected that the biographical dictionary will include information 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 From published and unpublished sources, from wills, archives of professional societies and guilds, from records of colleges, universities, and clubs, and from the contributions of selfless scholars, the authors have here assembled m...
Comedy and Crisis
Comedy and Crisis contains the first ever scholarly English translation of Pieter Langendijk’s Quincampoix, or the Wind Traders [Quincampoix of de Windhandelaars], and Harlequin Stock-Jobber [Arlequin Actionist]. The first play is a full-length satirical comedy, and the second is a short, comic harlequinade; both were written in Dutch in response to the speculative financial crisis or bubble of 1720 and were performed in Amsterdam in the fall of 1720, as the bubble in the Netherlands was bursting. Comedy and Crisis also contains our translation of the extensive apparatus prepared by C.H.P. Meijer (Introduction and notes) for his 1892 edition of these plays. The current editors have updated the footnotes and added six new critical essays by contemporary literary and historical scholars that contextualize the two plays historically and culturally. The book includes an extensive bibliography and index. The materials assembled in Comedy and Crisis are a rich resource for cultural, historical, and literary students of the history of finance and of eighteenth-century studies.
