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John Bell (publisher)

Index John Bell (publisher)

John Bell (1745–1831) was an English publisher. [1]

129 relations: A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Aaron Hill (writer), Alexander Pope (actor), All for Love (play), Ambrose Philips, Amphitryon (Dryden play), Andromaque, Ann Brunton Merry, Anna Maria Crouch, Arthur Murphy (writer), Bell (typeface), Bell's Weekly Messenger, Ben Jonson, Benjamin Hoadly, Cato, a Tragedy, Charles Churchill (satirist), Charles Johnson (writer), Charles Knight (publisher), Charles Lee Lewes, Charles Macklin, Charles Shadwell (playwright), Colley Cibber, David Garrick, Dorothea Jordan, Douglas (play), Edward Moore (dramatist), Edward Topham, Edward Young, Elizabeth Billington, Elizabeth Farren, Elizabeth Inchbald, Elizabeth Whitlock, Every Man in His Humour, Frances Abington, Frances Sheridan, Francis Beaumont, Fulham, George Colman the Elder, George Farquhar, George Lillo, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, Henry Fielding, Henry Jones (poet), Hugh Kelly (poet), Isaac Bickerstaffe, James Shirley, James Thomson (poet, born 1700), Jane Shore, Jean Racine, Jean-François de La Harpe, ..., John Dryden, John Fawcett (actor), John Fletcher (playwright), John Gay, John Hawkesworth (book editor), John Henry Johnstone, John Home, John Hughes (poet), John Moody (actor), John Palmer (actor), John Philip Kemble, John Pritt Harley, John Quick (actor), John Vanbrugh, Joint-stock company, Joseph Addison, Joseph George Holman, Joseph Shepherd Munden, La Belle Assemblée, Legum Doctor, Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Long s, Nathaniel Lee, Nicholas Rowe (writer), Oedipus (Dryden play), Oliver Goldsmith, Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Punchcutting, Richard Austin (punchcutter), Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore, Richard Cumberland (dramatist), Richard Glover (poet), Richard Steele, Richard Wroughton, Richard Yates (actor), Robert Baddeley, Robert Bensley, Robert Dodsley, Robert Howard (playwright), Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Samuel Foote, Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons, She Stoops to Conquer, Strand, London, Susanna Centlivre, The Battle of Hastings (play), The Beaux' Stratagem, The Beggar's Opera, The Brothers (Cumberland play), The Carmelite, The Chances, The Clandestine Marriage, The Conscious Lovers, The Country Wife, The Fair Penitent, The Fashionable Lover, The Gamester, The Jealous Wife, The Morning Post, The Mourning Bride, The Natural Son, The Orphan (play), The Recruiting Officer, The West Indian, Thomas Francklin, Thomas King (actor), Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Type foundry, Venice Preserv'd, Voltaire, William Blanchard (comedian), William Congreve, William Farren, William Shirley, William Thomas Lewis, William Whitehead (poet), William Wycherley. Expand index (79 more) »

A Bold Stroke for a Wife

A Bold Stroke for a Wife is Susanna Centlivre's 18th-century satirical English play first performed in 1718.

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Aaron Hill (writer)

Aaron Hill (10 February 1685 – 8 February 1750) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer.

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Alexander Pope (actor)

Alexander Pope (176322 March 1835) was an Irish actor and painter.

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All for Love (play)

All for Love or, the World Well Lost, is a heroic drama by John Dryden written in 1677.

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Ambrose Philips

Ambrose Philips (167418 June 1749) was an English poet and politician.

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Amphitryon (Dryden play)

Amphitryon is an English language comedy by John Dryden which is based on Molière's 1668 play of the same name which was in turn based on the story of the Greek mythological character Amphitryon as told by Plautus in his play from ca. 190-185 B.C. Dryden's play, which focuses on themes of sexual morality and power, premiered in London in 1690.

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Andromaque

Andromaque is a tragedy in five acts by the French playwright Jean Racine written in alexandrine verse.

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Ann Brunton Merry

Ann Brunton Merry (b. Covent Garden, England, 30 March 1769; d. Alexandria, Virginia, 28 June 1808) was an actress.

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Anna Maria Crouch

Anna Maria Crouch (20 April 1763 – 2 October 1805), often referred to as Mrs Crouch, was a singer and stage actress in the London theatre.

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Arthur Murphy (writer)

Arthur Murphy (27 December 1727 – 18 June 1805), also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer.

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Bell (typeface)

Bell is the name given to a serif typeface designed and cut in 1788 by the punchcutter Richard Austin for the British Letter Foundry, operated by publisher John Bell, and revived several times since.

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Bell's Weekly Messenger

Bell's Weekly Messenger was a British Sunday newspaper that began publication on 1 May 1796, under proprietorship of John Bell.

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Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy.

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Benjamin Hoadly

Benjamin Hoadly (14 November 1676 – 17 April 1761) was an English clergyman, who was successively Bishop of Bangor, of Hereford, of Salisbury, and finally of Winchester.

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Cato, a Tragedy

Cato, a Tragedy is a play written by Joseph Addison in 1712, and first performed on 14 April 1713.

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Charles Churchill (satirist)

Charles Churchill (February, 1732 – 4 November 1764), was an English poet and satirist.

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Charles Johnson (writer)

Charles Johnson (1679 – 11 March 1748) was an English playwright, tavern keeper, and enemy of Alexander Pope's.

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Charles Knight (publisher)

Charles Knight (15 March 1791 – 9 March 1873) was an English publisher, editor and author.

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Charles Lee Lewes

Charles Lee Lewes (1740 – 13 July 1803) was an English actor.

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Charles Macklin

Charles Macklin (26 September 1690 – 11 July 1797), (Charles McLaughlin in English), was an Irish actor and dramatist who performed extensively at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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Charles Shadwell (playwright)

Charles Shadwell was an English playwright of the 18th century, date of birth unknown, dead in 1726.

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Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate.

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David Garrick

David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson.

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Dorothea Jordan

Dorothea Jordan (22 November 17615 July 1816) also known as Mrs Jordan, was an Anglo-Irish actress, courtesan, and the mistress and companion of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom, for 20 years while he was Duke of Clarence.

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Douglas (play)

Douglas is a blank verse tragedy by John Home.

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Edward Moore (dramatist)

Edward Moore (22 March 1712 – 1 March 1757), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, the son of a dissenting minister, was born at Abingdon, Berkshire.

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Edward Topham

Edward Topham (1751–1820) was an English journalist and playwright.

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Edward Young

Edward Young (3 July 1683 – 5 April 1765) was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts.

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Elizabeth Billington

Elizabeth Billington (1765 or 1768, London – 25 August 1818, Venice) was a British opera singer.

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Elizabeth Farren

Elizabeth Farren (c. 1759 – 23 April 1829) was an English actress of the late 18th century.

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Elizabeth Inchbald

Elizabeth Inchbald (née Simpson) (1753–1821) was an English novelist, actress, and dramatist.

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Elizabeth Whitlock

Elizabeth Whitlock (2 April 1761, Warrington, Lancashire – 27 February 1836, Addlestone) was an English actress, a member of the Kemble family of actors.

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Every Man in His Humour

Every Man in His Humour is a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson.

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Frances Abington

Frances "Fanny" Abington (1737 – 4 March 1815) was a British actress, known not only for her acting, but her sense of fashion.

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Frances Sheridan

Frances Sheridan (née Chamberlaine) (1724 – 26 September 1766) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright.

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Francis Beaumont

Francis Beaumont (1584 – 6 March 1616) was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher.

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Fulham

Fulham is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in South West London, England, south-west of Charing Cross.

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George Colman the Elder

George Colman (April 1732 – 14 August 1794) was an English dramatist and essayist, usually called "the Elder", and sometimes "George the First", to distinguish him from his son, George Colman the Younger.

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George Farquhar

George Farquhar (1677The explanation for the dual birth year appears in Louis A. Strauss, ed., (Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1914), p. v. Strauss notes that "Our sole source of information as to the time of his birth is the entry of his matriculation in the register of Trinity College" on 17 July 1694, where "His age is given as 17." Earlier biographers took this to mean Farquhar was in his 17th year—hence born in 1678—and Strauss favors this date. But later writers, such as William Myers, ed.,, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. vii, give the dual year, and John Ross, ed., George Farquhar: The Recruiting Officer (New Mermaids), 2nd ed., (London: A&C Black, 1991), p. xiii, gives a birthdate of "ca. 1677" for the playwright. – 29 April 1707) was an Irish dramatist.

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George Lillo

George Lillo (3 February 1691 – 4 September 1739) was an English playwright and tragedian.

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George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 20th Baron de Ros, (30 January 1628 – 16 April 1687) was an English statesman and poet.

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the picaresque novel Tom Jones.

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Henry Jones (poet)

Henry Jones (1721–1770), born in Ireland, was a poet and dramatist active in London.

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Hugh Kelly (poet)

Hugh Kelly (1739 – 3 February 1777) was an Irish dramatist and poet.

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Isaac Bickerstaffe

Isaac Bickerstaffe or Bickerstaff (26 September 1733 – 1812?) was an Irish playwright and Librettist.

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James Shirley

James Shirley (or Sherley) (September 1596 – October 1666) was an English dramatist.

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James Thomson (poet, born 1700)

James Thomson (c. 11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748) was a British poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!".

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Jane Shore

Elizabeth "Jane" Shore (née Lambert) (c.1445 – c.1527) was one of the many mistresses of King Edward IV of England, one of three whom he described as "the merriest, the wiliest, and the holiest harlots" in his realm.

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Jean Racine

Jean Racine, baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 163921 April 1699), was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and Corneille), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.

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Jean-François de La Harpe

Jean-François de La Harpe (20 November 173911 February 1803) was a French playwright, writer and literary critic.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.

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John Fawcett (actor)

John Fawcett (29 August 1768 – 1837) was an English actor and playwright.

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John Fletcher (playwright)

John Fletcher (1579–1625) was a Jacobean playwright.

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John Gay

John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club.

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John Hawkesworth (book editor)

John Hawkesworth (c. 1715 – 16 November 1773), English writer and book editor, was born in London.

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John Henry Johnstone

John Henry Johnstone (1749–1828), also known as 'Jack' Johnstone or 'Irish' Johnstone, was an Irish actor, comedian and singer.

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John Home

Rev John Home FRSE (13 September 1722 – 4 September 1808) was a Scottish minister, soldier and author.

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John Hughes (poet)

John Hughes (born 29 January 1677 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, died of tuberculosis in London on 17 February 1720) was an English poet, essayist and translator.

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John Moody (actor)

John Moody (1727?–1812), original name John Cochran, was an Irish actor.

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John Palmer (actor)

John Palmer (c. 1742–1798) was an actor on the English stage in the eighteenth century.

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John Philip Kemble

John Philip Kemble (1 February 1757 – 26 February 1823) was an English actor.

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John Pritt Harley

John Pritt Harley (February 1786 – 22 August 1858) was an English actor known for his comic acting and singing.

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John Quick (actor)

John Quick (1748 – 4 April 1831) was an English actor, known for comic parts.

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John Vanbrugh

Sir John Vanbrugh (24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.

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Joint-stock company

A joint-stock company is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders.

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Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 June 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician.

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Joseph George Holman

Joseph George Holman (1764–1817) was an English actor and dramatist.

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Joseph Shepherd Munden

Joseph Shepherd Munden (1758 – 6 February 1832) was an English actor.

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La Belle Assemblée

La Belle Assemblée (in full La Belle Assemblée or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Addressed Particularly to the Ladies) was a British women's magazine published from 1806 to 1837, founded by John Bell (1745–1831).

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Legum Doctor

Legum Doctor (Latin: "teacher of the laws") (LL.D.; Doctor of Laws in English) is a doctorate-level academic degree in law, or an honorary doctorate, depending on the jurisdiction.

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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.

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Long s

The long, medial, or descending s (ſ) is an archaic form of the lower case letter s. It replaced a single s, or the first in a double s, at the beginning or in the middle of a word (e.g. "ſinfulneſs" for "sinfulness" and "ſucceſsful" for "successful").

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Nathaniel Lee

Nathaniel Lee (c. 1653 – 6 May 1692) was an English dramatist.

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Nicholas Rowe (writer)

Nicholas Rowe (20 June 1674 – 6 December 1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1715.

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Oedipus (Dryden play)

The heroic drama Oedipus: A Tragedy, is an adaption of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, written by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773).

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Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, based on the ancient figure of Puck found in English mythology.

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Punchcutting

Punchcutting is a craft used in traditional typography to cut letter punches in steel as the first stage of making metal type.

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Richard Austin (punchcutter)

Richard Austin (1756–1832) was an English punchcutter.

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Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore

Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore (14 August 1769 – 6 March 1793) was an English nobleman of Ireland, as well as an infamous rake, gambler, sportsman, theatrical enthusiast and womanizer.

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Richard Cumberland (dramatist)

Richard Cumberland (19 February 1731/2 – 7 May 1811) was an English dramatist and civil servant.

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Richard Glover (poet)

Richard Glover (1712 – 25 November 1785) was an English poet and politician.

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Richard Steele

Sir Richard Steele (bap. 12 March 1672 – 1 September 1729) was an Irish writer, playwright, and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Tatler.

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Richard Wroughton

Richard Wroughton (1748–1822), was an actor, born in 1748, who worked mainly in Covent Garden (now the Royal Opera house) and Drury Lane (now the Theatre Royal), and occasional in the city of his birth, Bath.

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Richard Yates (actor)

Richard Yates (c. 1706–1796) was an English comic actor, who worked at the Haymarket Theatre and Drury Lane among others, appearing in David Garrick's King Lear.

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Robert Baddeley

Robert Baddeley (1733–1794) was an English actor.

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Robert Bensley

Robert Bensley (c. 1740 – 1817) was an 18th-century English actor, of whom Charles Lamb in the Essays of Elia speaks with special praise.

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Robert Dodsley

Robert Dodsley (13 February 1704 – 23 September 1764) was an English bookseller, poet, playwright, and miscellaneous writer.

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Robert Howard (playwright)

Sir Robert Howard (January 1626 – 3 September 1698) was an English playwright and politician, born to Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire and his wife Elizabeth.

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Rule a Wife and Have a Wife

Rule a Wife and Have a Wife is a late Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher.

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Samuel Foote

Samuel Foote (January 1720 – 21 October 1777) was a British dramatist, actor and theatre manager from Cornwall.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.

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Sarah Siddons

Sarah Siddons (née Kemble; 5 July 1755 – 8 June 1831) was a Welsh-born actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century.

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She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773.

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Strand, London

Strand (or the Strand) is a major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster, Central London.

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Susanna Centlivre

Susanna Centlivre (c. 1667–1670 – 1 December 1723), born Susanna Freeman and also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet, actress, and "the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century".

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The Battle of Hastings (play)

The Battle of Hastings is a 1778 play by the English writer Richard Cumberland.

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The Beaux' Stratagem

The Beaux' Stratagem is a comedy by George Farquhar, first produced at the Theatre Royal, now the site of Her Majesty's Theatre, in the Haymarket, London, on March 8, 1707.

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The Beggar's Opera

The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.

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The Brothers (Cumberland play)

The Brothers is a 1769 comedy play by Richard Cumberland.

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The Carmelite

The Carmelite is a tragic play by the British writer Richard Cumberland.

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The Chances

The Chances is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher.

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The Clandestine Marriage

The Clandestine Marriage is a comedy by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick, first performed in 1766 at Drury Lane.

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The Conscious Lovers

The Conscious Lovers is a sentimental comedy written in five acts by the Irish author Richard Steele.

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The Country Wife

The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley.

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The Fair Penitent

The Fair Penitent is Nicholas Rowe's stage adaptation of the tragedy The Fatal Dowry, the Philip Massinger and Nathan Field collaboration first published in 1632.

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The Fashionable Lover

The Fashionable Lover is a comedy play by the British writer Richard Cumberland.

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The Gamester

The Gamester is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy of manners written by James Shirley, premiered in 1633 and first published in 1637.

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The Jealous Wife

The Jealous Wife is a 1761 British play by George Colman the Elder.

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The Morning Post

The Morning Post was a conservative daily newspaper published in London from 1772 to 1937, when it was acquired by The Daily Telegraph.

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The Mourning Bride

The Mourning Bride is a tragedy written by British playwright William Congreve.

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The Natural Son

The Natural Son is a comedy play by the British writer Richard Cumberland.

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The Orphan (play)

The Orphan or The Unhappy Marriage is a domestic tragedy, written by Thomas Otway in 1680.

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The Recruiting Officer

The Recruiting Officer is a 1706 play by the Irish writer George Farquhar, which follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury (the town where Farquhar himself was posted in this capacity) to recruit soldiers.

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The West Indian

The West Indian is a play by Richard Cumberland first staged at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1771.

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Thomas Francklin

Thomas Francklin (1721–15 March 1784) was an English academic, clergyman, writer and dramatist.

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Thomas King (actor)

Thomas King (1730–1805) was an English actor, known also as a theatre manager and dramatist.

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Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway (3 March 1652 – 14 April 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd (1682).

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Thomas Southerne

Thomas Southerne (1660 – 26 May 1746) was an Irish dramatist.

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Type foundry

A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces.

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Venice Preserv'd

Venice Preserv'd is an English Restoration play written by Thomas Otway, and the most significant tragedy of the English stage in the 1680s.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

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William Blanchard (comedian)

William Blanchard (1769–1835) was an English comedian.

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William Congreve

William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and poet of the Restoration period.

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William Farren

William Farren (13 May 1786 – 24 September 1861), English actor, was born the son of an actor (born 1725) of the same name, who played leading roles from 1784 to 1795 at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.

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William Shirley

William Shirley (2 December 1694 – 24 March 1771) was a British colonial administrator who was the longest-serving governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1741–1749 and 1753–1756) and then Governor of the Bahamas (1760–1768).

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William Thomas Lewis

William Thomas Lewis (1748?–1811), known as "Gentleman" Lewis, due to his refined acting style, was an English actor.

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William Whitehead (poet)

William Whitehead (baptized 12 February 1715 – 14 April 1785) was an English poet and playwright.

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William Wycherley

William Wycherley (baptised 8 April 1641 – 1 January 1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bell_(publisher)

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