The London Theatre World, 1660-1800

Many of the 12 essays in this book in honor of Arthur H. Scouten’s 70th birthday probe new territory in the exploration of Restoration and 18th-century English drama: music, publish­ing history, and company management. Others extend such traditional topics as social and political history in rela­tion to theatre. The essays are “Company Manage­ment,” Judith Milhous; “The Theatres,” Edward A. Langhans; “Scenery and Technical Design,” Colin Visser; “The Evidence from Promptbooks,” Leo Hughes; “Performers and Performing,” Philip H. Highfill, Jr.; “The Making of the Repertory,” George Winchester Stone, Jr.; “Music as Drama,” Curtis A. Price; “The Changing Audience,” Harry William Pedicord; “Political and Social Thought in the Drama,” John Loftis; “Dramatic Censorship,” Calhoun Winton; “The Publication of Plays,” Shirley Strum Kenny; and “The London Theatre at the End of the Eighteenth Century,” Joseph Donohue.