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Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.
c.1775-1810
Contains 103 English poems from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, together with some prose pieces and excerpts from dramatic works of the time.
Love and duty reconcil'd, a play.
c.1730-1740
Comprises an anonymous verse drama, perhaps for an amateur country-house production of around the 1730s or 1740s. Its characters include Sir James Lovesworth, Lord Alcidor, Theanor, Sir Charles, Colon...
Five new playes, viz: The Seege of Urbin, Selindra, Love and Friendship, tragy-comedies, Pandora, a comedy, The Imperiall Tragedy, by Sir William Killigrew
Killigrew, William (1606-1695)
1669-1695
The volume comprises a projected new edition of Killigrew's plays, and is made up of the printed editions of "Four new plays", 1666, and "The imperial tragedy", 1669, with manuscript additions and alt...
Collection of poems and songs, most of them apparently by Frederick Forrest or Theodosius Forrest, together with a play, a list of books from a library, and cuttings of published poems
Forrest, Frederick
c.1751-1800
Following three blank leaves, contents are f.4r-v: poem, 'Merit advanced, inscribed to Fredk. Forrest Esq.' signed 'T.S.' or 'T.F.' (perhaps Theodosius Forrest); ff.5r-46r (versos blank): 'The country...
Commonplace book of English verse, drama, and prose by various authors, including Robert Southwell and Josuah Sylvester.
c.1650-c1700
Contains prose, dramatic pieces, and 142 poems, mostly anonymous, but including 10 by Robert Southwell (1561-1595) and 17 by Josuah Sylvester (1563-1618). The text was compiled in the second part of...