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Augustan drama
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Augustan drama can refer to the dramas of Ancient Rome during the reign of Caesar Augustus, but it most commonly refers to the plays of Great Britain in the early 18th century, a subset of 18th-centur
"Rich's Glory": John Rich takes control of Covent Garden Theatre in 1732. The first play he would stage was The Way of the World.
"Rich's Glory": John Rich takes control of Covent Garden Theatre in 1732. The first play he would stage was The Way of the World.
An 1875 postcard from the Victoria and Albert Hall showing the Duke's Company theatre in Dorset Gardens (the so-called "machine house") in operation f
An 1875 postcard from the Victoria and Albert Hall showing the Duke's Company theatre in Dorset Gardens (the so-called "machine house") in operation from 1671 to 1709, which began as a playhouse and gradually became a house for spectacle.
Frontispiece to Fielding's Tom Thumb, a play satirizing plays (and Robert Walpole)
Frontispiece to Fielding's Tom Thumb, a play satirizing plays (and Robert Walpole)
David Garrick, a celebrity actor, starring as King Richard III in Colley Cibber's revision of Shakespeare's play six years after the Licensing Act 173
David Garrick, a celebrity actor, starring as King Richard III in Colley Cibber's revision of Shakespeare's play six years after the Licensing Act 1737.
Augustan literature
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Augustan literature is a style of British literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s, with the deat
Augustan drama
…Rome during the reign of Caesar Augustus, but it most commonly refers to the plays of Great Britain in the early 18th century, a subset of 18th-century Augustan literature. King George I referred to himself as "Augustus," and the poets of the era took this reference as apropos, as the literature of Rome during Augustus…
Queen Anne
Queen Anne
William Hogarth's Gin Lane is not entirely caricature, as in 1750, over a fourth of all houses in St Giles were gin shops, all unlicensed.
William Hogarth's Gin Lane is not entirely caricature, as in 1750, over a fourth of all houses in St Giles were gin shops, all unlicensed.
A woodcut of Daniel Defoe
A woodcut of Daniel Defoe
A portrait of Tobias Smollett
A portrait of Tobias Smollett