The Stage and the Page: London's Whole Show in the Eighteenth-Century TheatreGeorge Winchester Stone, Jr., George Winchester Stone This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981. |
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