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[The roaring girle, or, Moll Cut-Purse : as it hath lately beene acted on the Fortune-stage by the

Creator:: Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632
Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627
Published / Created:: 1611]
Call Number:: 1977 2724
Image Count:: 48
Alternative Title:: Moll Cut-purse.
Description:: Imperfect: title page and two following leaves wanting; title taken from Greg. and Moll Cut-purse was the alias of Mary Frith.
Publisher:: For Thomas Archer, and are to be sold at his shop in Popes head-pallace, neere the Royall Exchange,
Subject (Name):: Cutpurse, Moll,--1584?-1659
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [The roaring girle, or, Moll Cut-Purse : as it hath lately beene acted on the Fortune-stage by the Prince his Players / written by T. Middleton and T. Dekkar].

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[Selections from] The Life and death of Tom Thumb the Great

Call Number:: Fielding 731tb
Collection Title:: The tragedy of tragedies, or, The life and death of Tom Thumb the Great : as it is acted at the
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Collection Created:: London printed : And sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXXXI. [1731]
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Selections from] The Life and death of Tom Thumb the Great

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[Prologues and epilogues to 18th century English plays : clippings pasted in the scrap-book].

Call Number:: Folio Pamphlets 10
Image Count:: 7
Description:: BEIN Folio Pamphlets 10: Pages numbered in manuscript; some pages are blank, with no clippings.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Prologues and epilogues to 18th century English plays : clippings pasted in the scrap-book].

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[Frontispiece & Title page]

Call Number:: 1994 491
Collection Title:: Le theatre italien de Gherardi, ou, Le recueil general de toutes les comedies & scenes franscoises
Image Count:: 1
Subject (Topic):: Commedia dell’arte, French drama (Comedy), and French drama --17th century
Collection Created:: Amsterdam, Michel Charles le Cene, 1721
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Frontispiece & Title page]

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[Final two pages of text from] The comical gallant, or, The amours of Sir John Falstaffe ...

Call Number:: Ik D423 702c
Collection Title:: The comical gallant, or, The amours of Sir John Falstaffe : a comedy : as it is acted at the
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Name):: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merry wives of Windsor. Adaptations, parodies, etc
Collection Created:: London : Printed and sold by A. Baldwin, 1702
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Final two pages of text from] The comical gallant, or, The amours of Sir John Falstaffe ...

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Woman's revenge: or, A match in Newgate. A comedy. As it is acted at the Royal theatre in Lincoln's

Creator:: Bullock, Christopher, 1690?-1724.
Published / Created:: 1728
Call Number:: 1982 233
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:: Match in Newgate.
Description:: "A key to the Beggar's opera, in a letter to Caleb Danvers," first pub. in the Craftsman, February 17, 1728, is probably D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst) himself.--cf. C. E. Pearce, "Polly Peachum" and "The beggar's opera" [1913] p. [164]-178., Dramatis personæ.--Prologue written by Mr. Theobald, spoken by Mr. Keene.--To pretty Miss Polly Peachum, by Peter Padwell [pseud. of C. Bullock]--To my merry friend and brother comedian, Mr. James Spiller, by Christopher Bullock.--A match in Newgate, a comedy.--Epilogue, spoken by Mother Griffin, the bawd.--A key to the Beggar's opera, in a letter to Caleb Danvers, by Phil Harmonicus [pseud.]--To Miss Polly Peachum, a town pastoral, written in imitation of the fourth Eclogue of Virgil, by J. W. of Cheapside, linnen-draper.--Newgate's garland: being a new ballad, shewing how Mr. Jonathan Wild's throat was cut ... by Mr. Blake ... as he stood at his tryal in the Old Bailey, 1725., and First pub. in 1715. An alteration by Christopher Bullock of Betterton's The revenge itself, an alteration of Marston's Dutch courtezan.
Publisher:: Printed for J. Roberts,
Subject (Name):: Amhurst, N. (Nicholas), 1697-1742., Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710. Revenge., Clark, J. (James), active 1722-1735, Fenton, Lavinia,--1708-1760., Gay, John,--1685-1732.--Beggar's opera., and Marston, John, 1575?-1634. Dutch courtezan.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Woman's revenge: or, A match in Newgate. A comedy. As it is acted at the Royal theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.

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Vertue betray'd, or, Anna Bullen: a tragedy : acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre

Creator:: Banks, John, d. 1706, creator
Published / Created:: 1692
Call Number:: Ij B226 682Vb
Image Count:: 41
Publisher:: Printed for R. Bentley, in Russel-Street in Covent-Garden
Subject (Name):: Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536 and VIII, King of England, Henry, 1491-1547
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vertue betray'd, or, Anna Bullen: a tragedy : acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre

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Valentinian : a tragedy / as ’tis alter’d by the late Earl of Rochester, and acted at the Theatre

Creator:: Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680
Wolseley, Robert, 1649-1697
Published / Created:: 1685
Call Number:: Ih F635 685Vab
Image Count:: 59
Resource Type:: Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:: An alteration of Fletcher's play. and The preface concerning the Earl of Rochester is by Robert Wolseley.
Publisher:: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold by Jos. Knight, and Fr. Saunders, at the sign of the Blue Anchor in the lower walk of the New-Exchange
Subject (Name):: Valentinian III, Emperor of Rome, 419-455 --Drama
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Valentinian : a tragedy / as ’tis alter’d by the late Earl of Rochester, and acted at the Theatre-Royal ; together with a preface concerning the author and his writings by one of his friends

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Useful miscellanies: containing, I. A Preface of the publisher of the tragi-comedy of Joan of

Creator:: King, William, 1663-1712
King, William, 1663-1712. Tragi-comedy of Joan of Hedington. 1712
Published / Created:: 1712
Call Number:: College Pamphlets 1655 1
Image Count:: 40
Alternative Title:: Horace, his behaviour during his stay at Trinity-college. and Joan of Hedington.
Description:: Anonymous. By William King. and No more published.
Publisher:: Printed for Bernard Lintott,
Subject (Name):: Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Parodies, imitations, etc
Subject (Topic):: Brit tracts--1712
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Useful miscellanies: containing, I. A Preface of the publisher of the tragi-comedy of Joan of Hedington. II. The Tragi-comedy of Joan of Hedington, in imitation of Shakespear. III. Some account of Horace his behaviour during his stay at Trinity-College, in Cambridge. With an Ode to entreat his departure thence; together with a copy of his medal taken out of Trinity-College Buttery, by a well-wisher to that society. Part I.

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University plays written for performance at Cambridge : [Cambridge], [16--].

Creator:: Alabaster, William, 1567-1640
Brooke, Samuel, d. 1631
Hacket, John, 1592-1670
Hawkesworth, Walter, d. 1606
Published / Created:: [16--].
Call Number:: GEN MSS VOL 214
Image Count:: 80
Abstract:: Volume containing manuscript transcripts in an unidentified hand of 5 plays written in Latin for performance at Cambridge University in the 17th century. Includes Walter Hawkesworth's Leander and his Labrynthus (printed 1636); John Hacket's Laiola (printed as Loiola, 1648); Samuel Brooke's Scyros; and William Alabaster's Roxana (printed 1632).
Description:: From the library of Shipdham Church in Thetford, Norfolk County, England. and Some pagination is erroneous.
Subject (Name):: Shipdham Church (Thetford, England) Ownership
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > University plays written for performance at Cambridge : [Cambridge], [16--].