English 431 - Studies in Drama: David Garrick

Desk-top Reference Collection

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online
• Oxford English Dictionary Online
• American National Biography
• World Biographical Information System Online

Primary and Secondary Sources - Paper copy

• The London stage, 1660-1800; a calendar of plays, entertainments & afterpieces, together with casts, box-receipts and contemporary comment. Compiled from the playbills, newspapers and theatrical diaries of the period. 5 volumes + index.
  PN2592 L6 - Main floor Reference Collection
• A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1660-1800. 16 volumes.
  PN2597 H5 - Main floor Reference Collection
• Some account of the English stage : from the restoration in 1660 to 1830.
  PN2581 G4
• David Garrick: a reference guide
  Z8324.45 B4 - Main floor Reference Collection

Primary and Secondary Sources - Online

• Shakespeare Collection
• ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • The dramatic censor; or critical companion, 1770
  • Dramatic miscellanies: consisting of critical observations on several plays of Shakspeare: with a review of his principal characters, and those of various eminent writers, as represented by Mr. Garrick, and other celebrated comedians. ... By Thomas Davies, In three volumes.
  • Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, Esq. Interspersed with characters and anecdotes of his theatrical contemporaries. The whole forming a history of the stage, which includes a period of thirty-six years. By Thomas Davies.
• LION (Literature Online)
• International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
• Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
• Eighteenth Century Journals II
• Internet Library of Early Journals
• Past Masters
• Literature Resource Center
• Academic Search Premier
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• Project MUSE
• JSTOR