Resources Cited

A list of the sources most directly utilized on or while creating this website.


BOOKS - PRINT

Avery, Emmett L., ed. The London Stage: 1660-1800. A Calendar of Plays, Entertainments & Afterpieces. Together with Casts, Box-Receipts and Contemporary Comment. Compiled from the Playbills, Newspapers and Theatrical Diaries of the Period. Part 2: 1700-1729. Vol. 1. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.

Dickinson, H.T., ed. A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain. 2002. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. [For this site, I made particular use of chapter sixteen ("Women and the Family," by John D. Ramsbottom), chapter twenty-seven ("Crime and Punishment," by James A. Sharpe), chapter thirty-three ("Britain's Emergence as a European Power, 1688-1815," by H.M. Scott), and chapter thirty-six ("The British Army," by Stanley D. M. Carpenter).]

Dukore, Bernard F, ed. Dramatic Theory and Criticism: Greeks to Grotowski. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974.

Farquhar, George. The Beaux' Stratagem. 1707. Ed. Michael Cordner. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990 (this form first pub. 1976).

Keymer, Thomas and Peter Sabor. Pamela in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. [This added largely because it influenced my own impression of the 18th-century, and thus no doubt the creation of this website. The book itself offers quite an interesting exploration of the many media facets of the 18th Century, and particularly strong images of the print world.]

Kelly, Shirley Strum, ed. The Works of George Farquhar: Volume II. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. [Used for Kelly's introductions, as well as The Recruiting Officer and the collection of Farquhar's non-theatrical writings.]

Loughrey, Bryan and T.O. Treadwell. "Introduction." The Beggar's Opera. John Gay. Ed. Loughrey and Treadwell. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. 7-31.

Mackie, Erin, ed. The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator. Bedford/St. Martin’s: Boston and New York, 1998.

O'Gorman, Frank. The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History, 1688-1832. London: Arnold, 1997.

Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. 1982. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.

Rothstein, Eric. George Farquhar. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1967.

Turberville, A.S. English Men and Manners in the Eighteenth Century. 1926. Fourth printing. New York: Galaxy Book, 1967.


BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, AND MISC. PRINT - ELECTRONIC

An answer to The pleasures of a single life: or, the comforts of marriage confirm'd and vindicated: vvith the misery of lying alone, provd and asserted. London,  1701. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale. University of Manchester - John Rylands. 11 Dec. 2010 
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Baas, Johann Hermann. Outlines of  the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession.Trans. and ed. Henry Ebenezer Handerson. New York: J.H. Vail & Co., 1889. Google Books. Web. 29 Dec 2010.

Cibber, Theophilus. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), Volume III. 1753. Echo Library, 2007. Google Books. Web. 12 Dec 2010.

The country physician; containing several easie and useful remedies, some whereof were never made publick before, with some short advices tending to health. As also several letters lately written by an eminent physician, to the publisher. Edinburgh,  Printed in the Year, M.DCC.L. [1701]. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale. University of Manchester - John Rylands. 11 Dec 2010 
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Cowell, John. The interpreter of words and terms, used either in the common or statute laws of this realm, and in tenures and jocular customs: with an appendix, Containing the Antient Names of Places in England, very Necessary for the Use of all Young Students, that converse with Antient Deeds, Charters, &c. First publish'd by the Learned Dr. Cowel, in the year 1607. and continu'd by Tho. Manley of the Middle Temple, Esq; to the year 1684. Now further augmented and improv'd, by the Addition of many Thousand Words, (distinguished thus [pointing hand]) as are found in our Histories, Antiquities, Cartularies, Rolls, Registers, and other Manuscript Records, not hitherto Explain'd in any Dictionary. London,  1701. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale. University of Manchester - John Rylands. 11 Dec 2010
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Curiosities of popular customs and of rites, ceremonies, observances, and miscellaneous antiquities. J.B. Lippincott Co., 1897. Google Books. Web. 30 Dec 2010.

“A Discourse about raising men in which is shewed that it is more for the interest of the nation that the parishes should be oblig'd by law to provide men for the service of the war, than to continue to raise 'em in the ordinary way, and all objections are answered, and particularly that popular one, viz. that this way of raising men is a violation of liberty and property.” London: 1696. Early English Books Online. Web. 2 Dec 2010.

Doyle, Ursula. Love Letters of Great Men. Macmillan, 2008. Google Books. Web. 29 Dec 2010. [Includes a recent but very brief introduction to Farquhar.]

Freeman, Lisa A. Character’s Theater: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Google Books. Web. 30 Dec 2010.

"A full and true account of the apprehending, taking and examination of one Mr. Harris, and carried befoe [sic] Justice Tully, sworn against by Mr. Stagg, to be that notorious highwayman that used to robb on the black mare on Hounslow-heath: then committed to the Gatehouse, August the 11th, 1704." London: 1704. Early English Books Online. Web. 9 Dec 2010.

Harper, Charles George. Half-hours with the Highwaymen: Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the "Knights of the Road". Volume II. London: Chapman & Hall, 1908. Google Books. Web. 29 Dec 2010.

Hitchings, Henry. Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. Macmillan, 2006. Google Books. Web. 29 Dec 2010.

"An Impartial relation of the seizing and apprehending several high-way-men in Fleet-Street, &c. on Friday the second of this instant March, 1694." London: 1694. Early English Books Online. Web. 12 Dec 2010.

Inchbald, Mrs. The British Theatre. Volume VIII. London: 1808. Google Books. Web. 30 Dec 2010. [Includes The Constant Couple, The Inconstant, The Recruiting Officer, The Beaux' Stratagem, and Joseph Addison's Cato, with accompanying remarks by Mrs. Inchbald.]

Journals of the House of Commons: From October the 20th, 1702, In the First Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, to March the 17th, 1704, In the Fourth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne. Volume 14. 1803. Google Books. Web. 29 Dec 2010. [Includes details regarding the act for raising troops; see p. 385.]

Lock, Stephen, John M. Last, and George Dunea, ed. The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine. 1986. Third edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Google Books. Web. 29 Dec 2010.

Merydew, J.T., ed. Love Letters of Famous Men and Women of the Past and Present Century. Volume I. London: Remington & Co., 1888.

Meyers, Jeffrey. Samuel Johnson: The Struggle. Basic Books, 2008. Google Books. Web. 29 Dec 2010. [See particularly the first chapter, "Lichfield Lad."]

Newman, Gerald, ed. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis, 1997. Google Books. Web. 29 Dec 2010. [Claims to begin a bit later than The Beaux' Stratagem, but references the time before and certainly has its uses.]

Olsen, Kirstin. Daily Life in 18th-Century England. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. Google Books. Web. 29 Dec 2010. [Reportedly not the most accurate of books, and has therefore been employed only occasionally, and with more than a few grains of salt.]

Peregrinus, Medicus. Litora aliena. W.M. Leonard, 1911. Google Books. Web. 29 Dec 2010. [See particularly the section "Lichfield andIts Traditions," p. 20-3.]

Sears, Robert. Sears' Wonders of the World. New York: Robert Sears, 1856. Google Books. Web. 30 Dec 2010.

A Short Account of  the City and Close of Lichfield
. Lichfield: T.G. Lomax, 1819. Google Books. Web. 29 Dec 2010.

Smollett, Tobias George. The History of England. Volume II. Oxford: D.A. Talboys, 1827. Google Books. Web. 29 Dec 2010. [Contains a bit of information regarding the 1703 act for raising recruits; see p. 10-11.]

Strauss, Louis A. "Introduction." A Discourse upon Comedy, The Recruiting Officer, The Beaux' Stratagem. Ed. Strauss. Boston: D.C. Heath and Co, 1914. xiii-lvi. Google Books. Web. 12 Dec 2010.

“A Treatise concerning adultery and divorce.” 1700. Early English Books Online. Web. 29 Nov 2010.

Ward, Edward. The pleasures of a single life, or the miseries of matrimony. Occasionally writ upon the many divorces lately granted by Parliament. [London],  1701. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale. University of Manchester - John Rylands. 11 Dec 2010
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JOURNAL ARTICLES

Jordan, Robert John. “George Farquhar’s Military Career.” Huntington Library Quarterly, 37.3 (May 1974): 251-264. JSTOR. Web. 28 Dec 2010.

Milhous, Judith and Robert D. Hume. "The Beaux' Stratagem: A Production Analysis." Theatre Journal, 34.1 (Mar 1982): 77. JSTOR. Web. 14 Nov 2010.


NEWSPAPER ARTICLES (or simply newspaper issues, when no article title or author available)

Blanchard, Jayne. "'Beaux' Script Piles on Abuse - Heavy-Handed Humor Detracts from Cast's Stellar Performances." The Washington Times. 17 Nov 2006: D03. NewsBank. Web. 22 Nov 2010.

Carey, Lynn. "'Stratagem' Spiced with a Few Odd Quirks." Contra Costa Times [Walnut Creek, CA]. 8 Sept 1995: TAB29. NewsBank. Web. 22 Nov 2010.

Coates, Marie. "Beaux Ideal." SFWeekly. 20 Sept 2010. Web. 12 Dec 2010.

Daily Courant [London, England] 3 Jan, 1706. 17th-18th Century Burney Collection. Web. 2 Dec 2010.

Daily Courant [London, England] 27 Mar, 1707. 17th-18th Century Burney Collection. Web. 26 Nov 2010.

Litton, Marie. "Farquhar's 'Beaux' Stratagem.'" The Times [London, England] 27 Sept 1879: p 6. The Times Digital Archive: 1785-1985. Web. 26 Nov 2010.

L.M. "To the Printer of the NEW MORNING POST." New Morning Post [London, England] 22 Nov 1776. 17th-18th Century Burney Collection. Web. 29 Nov 2010.

“The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith: ‘The Beaux’ Stratagem.’” The Times [London, England] 21 Jan 1927: p 12. The Times Digital Archive: 1785-1985. Web. 26 Nov 2010.

Milvy, Erika. "Berkeley Rep Restores Cool to Comedy." The Press Democrat [Santa Rosa, CA]. 17 Sept 1995: Q19. NewsBank. Web. 22 Nov 2010.

Post Man and the Historical Account [London, England] 17-20 Aug 1700. 17th-18th Century Burney Collection. Web. 29 Nov 2010.

Winn, Steven. "Smells Like Old Times." SFGate. 10 Sept 2010. Web. Dec 13 2010.


WEB PAGES

"Artist's Words at First Rehearsal." Shakespeare Theatre Company. Web. 12 Dec 2010.


IMAGES

Frontispiece for The Beaux' Stratagem from the Project Gutenberg version of the play as published 1898 and edited by H. Macaulay Fitzgibbon.

Portrait of George Farquhar from Wikipedia.



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