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X: Dramatic Advertisements in the Burney Newspapers 1660–1700

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Sybil Rosenfeld
Sybil Rosenfeld*
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London, England
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A bibliography of restoration drama is much needed, and it is to be hoped that either Professor Allardyce Nicoli or Mr. Montague Summers will fulfil his promise to give us one. The advertisements in newspapers concerning the publication of plays are invaluable raw material for such a bibliography. Writers on, and editors of, individual dramatists have occasionally made use of them, but the great mass of advertisements has remained uncollected and unsought after. I have thoroughly searched the Burney Collection of newspapers in the British Museum and extracted therefrom announcements of the publication of plays. I have confined myself to plays or songs from individual plays, leaving out of account books on the drama or collections of songs in which no specific play is mentioned.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , March 1936 , pp. 123 - 150
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1936

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References

* Mr. Summers has since published his A Bibliography of the Restoration Drama, in which he has made use of about fifty of the following advertisements. It does not evidence a thorough search of the newspapers and in several instances fails to quote the earliest date for an advertisement.

1 The years 1700–1703 have been dealt with by A Jackson, PMLA (Sept., 1933).

2 Sbadwell's Epsom Wells and Libertine, Tate's Ingratitude of a Commonwealth, Ravenscroft's Titus Andronicus and Canterbury Guests.

3 See Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Charles Sedley, ed. V. de Sola Pinto (1928), i. 190.

4 Licensed April 13, probably produced towards the end of the month.

5 The only other instance I have found in the period where an advertisement anticipated a S.R. entry is Amorous Orontus, Newes, April 27, 1665; S.R. July 1, 1665.

6 Not, however, when either the T.C. or the newspaper, as very frequently, merely gives an additional name or names.

7 Shadwell's Volunteers, Powell's Bonduca, Filmer's Unnatural Brother, Dilke's City Lady, Cibber's Xerxes.

8 Restoration Drama (1928), 2d ed.

9 This advertisement is noticed by W. Barclay Squire, Purcell's Dramatic Music (1904), p. 514, and quoted by A. C. Sprague, Beaumont and Fletcher on the Restoration Stage, p. 70.

10 Noted by M. Summers, The Restoration Stage (1934), p. xvi.

11 Noted by C. Stonehill, Works of Farquhar, 1930.

12 Quoted by Sprague, op. cit., p. 82.

13 J. W. Dobbs (Thomas Southerne Dramatist (1933), p. 63), has been misled by the T.C. advertisement into stating that the play was revived at L.I.F. whereas t.p. gives T.R.