books.google.com - This book was the first comprehensive survey of Purcell's dramatic music. It is concerned as much with the London theatre world - playhouses, poets, actors, singers, producers - as with the music itself. Purcell wrote music for more than fifty plays of various types, most of them produced at the Theatre...http://books.google.com/books/about/Henry_Purcell_and_the_London_stage.html?id=E7E8AAAAIAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHenry Purcell and the London stage
