• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: A Select collection of English plays : from the best authors
  • Other titles: Phædra and Hippolitus
    Ambitious step-mother
    Beggar's opera
    Earl of Essex
    Gentle shepherd
    Guardian
    Spanish fryar
    Way to keep him
    Gustavus Vasa.
  • Contributor: Cowley, Abraham [Other]; Ramsay, Allan [Other]; Murphy, Arthur [Other]; Smith, Edmund [Other]; Brooke, Henry [Other]; Brooke, Henry [Other]; Dryden, John [Other]; Gay, John [Other]; Rowe, Nicholas [Other]
  • imprint: Edinburgh: sold by A. Donaldson at Pope's Head opposite the Exchange, MDCCLX. [1760] MDCCLXI. [1761]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (2v); 12°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Epitaphs
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Each volume has an additional titlepage, engraved, dated 1760
    English Short Title Catalog, T216862
    Reproduction of original from British Library
    The plays have separate titlepages, pagination and register and were also issued separately
    Volume I contains: 'The Spanish fryar' by Dryden, 'The Earl of Essex', by Henry Brooke, 'Gustavus Vasa' by Henry Brooke, 'Phædra and Hippolitus' by Edmund Smith, and 'The ambitious stepmother' by Nicholas Rowe; Vol. II. contains: 'The Beggar's Opera' and 'Polly' by Gay, 'The way to keep him', 'The guardian', 'The gentle shepherd' by Allan Ramsay