ABSTRACT
DRAMA; or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine was a London monthly that published two series (totaling nine volumes) from 1821 through 1826. The reviews show that the first editor, whoever he was, undertook to reform the London stage by attacking the practices of the monopolistic licensed theaters and urging that a higher caliber of literary figure write for the stage. The editor, who probably wrote the review of Byron’s Marino Faliero, seems to have been a university graduate, probably a younger man who had grown up during the heyday of Byron’s reputation (1812–16).
