A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 12, Pinner to Rizzo: Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 12, Pinner to Rizzo: Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
by Philip H Highfill, Jr, Kalman A Burnim and Edward A. Langhans
Southern Illinois University Press, 1987 Cloth: 978-0-8093-1281-8 | eISBN: 978-0-8093-8030-5
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Philip H. Highfill, Jr., is Professor of English at George Washington University.
Kalman A. Burnim is Professor of Drama at Tufts University.
Edward A. Langhans is Professor of Drama and Theater at the University of Hawaii.
REVIEWS
“No major reference library can afford to ignore these works in which the authors . . . continue their census of London theatrical persons of all ranks, from the Restoration to the Regency—clowns and carpenters, scene painters and strolling players, dancers and dwarfs, managers and monologists. Theirs is the fruit of a search of many years through 65 libraries. The entries are illuminated by portraits and illustrations gleaned from public galleries and private collections all over the world. The set is a reference work of the first order.”—Theatre and Performing Arts Collections
“This multi-volume work is one of the most important reference aids to be published on the English theatre of the Restoration and eighteenth-century.”
—American Reference Books Annual
“An indispensable reference.”—The English Association
“A reference set of the first importance.”—The Eighteenth Century