A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dom inated by the glamour of David Gar rick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 por traits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.