ABSTRACT
This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume 2 of 4 explores the subject of drama criticism. This volume will be of great interest to students of literary history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|156 pages
Theatrical Debates
chapter 4|2 pages
D—G [George Daniels], ‘Remarks’ on A Tale of Mystery
from Cumberland's British theatre, Vol. VIII (London: John Cumberland, 1826)
chapter 5|3 pages
‘Surrey theatre’
The Mirror of the Stage: or, New Dramatic Censor 13 January, 1823, 189–190
chapter 6|7 pages
Walter Scott, extract from ‘An Essay on the Drama’
originally published as Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1819. This version from The miscellaneous prose works of Sir Walter Scott, Vol VI, Chivalry, romance, the drama (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, and London: Whittaker & Co., 1834), 383–395
chapter 7|7 pages
Joanna Baillie, Extract from A Series of Plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [Plays on the Passions]
(London: T. Cadell, 1798), 12–26
chapter 9|5 pages
Edward Lytton Bulwer, ‘The Drama’
From England and the English Vol II (London: Richard Bentley, 1833), 136–142, 151–156
chapter 11|8 pages
D. J. [Douglas Jerrold], ‘The Rights of Dramatists’
Monthly Magazine, May 1832, 559–565
chapter 16|3 pages
Effingham Wilson, A House for Shakespere: A Proposition for the Nation
(London: H. Hurst, 1848), 5–7
chapter 17|4 pages
William Archer & H. Granville Barker, ‘Preface’
in A national theatre. scheme and estimates (London: Duckworth, 1907), xv–xxi
chapter 18|4 pages
Henry Arthur Jones, ‘The Future of English Drama’
The New Review, August, 1893, 177–181
chapter 22|4 pages
Madge Kendal, The Drama. A Paper Read at the Congress for the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Birmingham, 1884
(London: David Bogue), 2–6, 8–13
chapter 23|18 pages
Raymond Blathwayt, Does the Theatre Make for Good?
A talk with Mr. Clement Scott, reprinted from ‘Great Thoughts’ (London: A. W. Hall, 1898), 3–18
chapter 24|3 pages
Leigh Hunt, ‘Appendix’ [Rules for the Theatrical Critic of a Newspaper]
to Critical essays on the performers of the London theatres, (London: John Hunt, 1807), 17–21
chapter 26|5 pages
William Archer, ‘The Ethics of Theatrical Criticism’
in About the theatre: essays and studies (London, T. F. Unwin, 1886.), 183–196
chapter 27|6 pages
R. M. Sillard, ‘Concerning Theatrical Criticism’
Westminster Review, December 1898, 634–640
part 2|191 pages
Theatrical Aesthetics in Practice
chapter 28|3 pages
‘Introductory Chapter’
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, by Boz [Charles Dickens], 1838, xi–xix
chapter 31|8 pages
‘Pantomimes and Christmas Pieces’
Illustrated London News, 28 December, 1844, 408–410
chapter 33|3 pages
Percy Fitzgerald, ‘Stage Illusion – Mechanism’
The world behind the scenes, (1881), 1–5
chapter 35|4 pages
Leigh Hunt, Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres
(London: John Hunt, 1808)
chapter 38|4 pages
John Forster, ‘Macready as Macbeth’
The Examiner, October 4, 1835, repr. in Dramatic essays edited by William Archer and Robert W. Lowe (London: Walter Scott, 1896), 1–7
chapter 39|5 pages
G. H. Lewes, ‘Rachel’
from On actors and the art of acting, (New York: Henry Holt, 1881; first published 1875), 31–38
chapter 42|5 pages
William Bodham Donne, ‘The Drama’
Essays on the drama (London: John W. Parker & Son, 1858), 120–128, 153–155
chapter 43|7 pages
G. H Lewes, ‘On Natural Acting’
in On actors and the art of acting (New York: Henry Holt, 1880), 100–112
chapter 44|4 pages
Henry Irving, ‘Preface’, to Denis Diderot, Paradox of the Actor
translated by Walter Herries Pollock (London: Chatto & Windus, 1883), ix–xx
chapter 52|2 pages
Edward Aveling & Eleanor Marx, ‘The Woman Question: from a Socialist Point of View’
Westminster Review, January 1886, 221–222
chapter 53|7 pages
W. A. Lewis Bettany, ‘Criticism and the Renascent Drama’
The Theatre, June 1892, 277–283
