The First Harvard Playwright A Bibliography Of The Restoration Dramatist John Crowne With Extract

Author : George Parker Winship
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ISBN 13 : 9781331897330
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book The First Harvard Playwright written by George Parker Winship and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The First Harvard Playwright: A Bibliography of the Restoration Dramatist, John Crowne, With Extracts From His Prefaces and the Earlier Version of the Epilogue to Sir Courtly Nice, 1685 The first Harvard man who succeeded in making a living by practising a recognized form of literature was the Restoration dramatist John Crowne. Crowne's attendance at the New England college was presumably due to the fact that his father resided in Boston for a time, toward the end of the period of the Protectorate. As soon as King Charles II was safely on his throne, the Crowne family returned to London. The son at least once recalled his undergraduate days, when he made a deposition, which is now in the British Public Record Office, stating that the Regicides, Walley and Goffe, 'resided in Cambridge University, of which deponent was a member, ' shortly after their arrival in America. This Bibliography of Crowne's publications is based on a section of the 'Report on Some Authors of English Literature, 1660-1780, ' compiled in 1902-03, which is largely responsible for the strength of the Harvard Library for that period. It was expanded by Miss Eleanor D. Monroe for publication in number II of 'Harvard Library Notes, ' for October, 1920, pp. 46-52. Titles and collations missing at that time have now been added, all statements have been verified by an examination of the British Museum copies, and again checked with the Harvard copies by Mr. George Osborne Forrest. The Harvard Library now contains all but two of the Seventeenth Century editions described herein; one single-sheet and one Second Edition. Of the 47 titles listed, Harvard has 41. Passages from Crowne's Prefaces which illustrate the history of the stage, and his observations on Shakespeare, have been added to the notes. The Epilogue to 'Sir Courtly Nice' is reprinted from the single-sheet that was issued in 1685. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.