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Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820

A Calendar of Performances

By: John C. Greene

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Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820

A Calendar of Performances

By: John C. Greene

Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820. The daily performance calendar for each of the seventy-five seasons recorded here records and organizes all surviving documentary evidence pertinent to each evening’s entertainments, derived from all known sources, but especially from playbills and newspaper advertisements. Each theatre’s daily entry includes all preludes, mainpieces, interludes, and afterpieces with casts and assigned roles, followed by singing and singers, dancing and dancers, and specialty entertainments. Financial data, program changes, rehearsal notices, authorship and premiere information are included in each component’s entry, as is the text of contemporary correspondence and editorial contextualization and commentary, followed by other additional commentary, such as the many hundreds of printed puffs, notices, and performance reviews. In the cases of the programs of music halls, pleasure gardens, and circuses, the playbills have generally been transcribed verbatim. The calendar for each season is preceded by an analytical headnote that presents several categories of information including, among other things, an alphabetical listing of all members of each company, whether actors, musicians, specialty artists, or house servants, who are known to have been employed at each venue. Limited biographical commentary is included, particularly about performers of Irish origin, who had significant stage careers but who did not perform in London. Each headnote presents the seasons’s offerings of entertainments of each theatrical type (prelude, mainpiece, interlude, afterpiece) analyzed according to genre, including a list of the number of plays in each genre and according to period in which they were first performed. The headnote also notes the number of different plays by Shakespeare staged during each season and gives particular attention to entertainments of “special Irish interest.” The various kinds of benefit performance and command performances are also noted. Finally, this Calendar of Performances contains an appendix that furnishes a season-by-season listing of the plays that were new to the London patent theatres, and, later, of the important “minors.” This information is provided in order for us to understand the interrelatedness of the London and Dublin repertories.

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Lehigh University Press

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1611461170

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American Potters and Pottery

By: John Ramsay

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American Potters and Pottery

By: John Ramsay

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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480

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Read Books Ltd

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1528760646

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Man-Devil

The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe

By: John J. Callanan

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Man-Devil

The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe

By: John J. Callanan

A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century In 1714, doctor, philosopher and writer Bernard Mandeville published The Fable of the Bees, a humorous tale in which a prosperous hive full of greedy and licentious bees trade their vices for virtues and immediately fall into economic and societal collapse. Outrage among the reading public followed; philosophers took up their pens to refute what they saw as the fable’s central assertion. How could it be that an immoral community thrived but the introduction of morality caused it to crash and burn? In Man-Devil, John Callanan examines Mandeville and his famous fable, showing how its contentious claim—that vice was essential to the economic flourishing of any society—formed part of Mandeville’s overall theory of human nature. Mandeville, Callanan argues, was perfectly suited to analyze and satirize the emerging phenomenon of modern society—and reveal the gap between its self-image and its reality. Callanan shows that Mandeville’s thinking was informed by his medical training and his innovative approach to the treatment of illness with both physiological and psychological components. Through incisive and controversial analyses of sexual mores, gender inequality, economic structures, and political ideology, Mandeville sought to provide a naturalistic account of human behavior—one that put humans in close continuity with animals. Aware that his fellow human beings might find this offensive, he cloaked his theories in fables, poems, anecdotes, and humorous stories. Mandeville mastered irony precisely for the purpose of making us aware of uncomfortable aspects of our deepest natures—aspects that we still struggle to acknowledge today.

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Princeton University Press

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0691165440

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9780691165448

Diseases of the Small Intestine in Childhood, Fourth Edition

By: John Walker-Smith,Simon Murch

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Diseases of the Small Intestine in Childhood, Fourth Edition

By: John Walker-Smith,Simon Murch

Provides a review of diseases of the small intestine in children, with an emphasis upon a discussion of their causes, clinical manifestations and the newer techniques which are used in diagnosis as well as modern methods of management. The book will be of value to the consultant paediatrician and paediatric surgeon as well as to the paediatric registrar and house officer as a practical guide to their understanding of these diseases. It is also intended for adult physicians, gastroenterologists and surgeons who wish to survey the clinical spectrum of disease of the small intestine in childhood.

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CRC Press

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1901865053

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Return to Bull Run

The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas

By: John J. Hennessy

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Return to Bull Run

The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas

By: John J. Hennessy

“This comprehensively researched, well-written book represents the definitive account of Robert E. Lee’s triumph over Union leader John Pope in the summer of 1862. . . . Lee’s strategic skills, and the capabilities of his principal subordinates James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson, brought the Confederates onto the field of Second Manassas at the right places and times against a Union army that knew how to fight, but not yet how to win.”—Publishers Weekly

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806186720

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9780806186726

Catalogue of the library of the Peabody institute of the city of Baltimore ...

Vol. II

By: Andrew Troeger,John Parker

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Catalogue of the library of the Peabody institute of the city of Baltimore ...

Vol. II

By: Andrew Troeger,John Parker

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385307163

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Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet

By: C. John Ralph

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Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet

By: C. John Ralph

This report was compiled & edited by the interagency Marbled Murrelet Conservation Assessment Core Team. The 37 chapters cover both original studies & literature reviews of many aspects of the species' biology, ecology, & conservation needs. It includes new information on the forest habitat used for nesting, marine distribution, & demographic analyses; & describes past & potential effects of humans on the species habitats. Future research needs & possible management strategies for both marine & forest habitats are suggested. Charts & tables.

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DIANE Publishing

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0788141627

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9780788141621

Beneath Flanders Fields

The Tunnellers' War 1914-18

By: Peter Barton,Peter Doyle,John Vandewalle

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Beneath Flanders Fields

The Tunnellers' War 1914-18

By: Peter Barton,Peter Doyle,John Vandewalle

The result of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields reveals how this intense underground battle was fought and won. The authors give the first full account of mine warfare in World War I through the words of the tunnellers themselves as well as plans, drawings, and previously unpublished archive photographs, many in colour. Beneath Flanders Fields also shows how military mining evolved. The tunnellers constructed hundreds of deep dugouts that housed tens of thousands of troops. Often electrically lit and ventilated, these tunnels incorporated headquarters, cookhouses, soup kitchens, hospitals, drying rooms, and workshops. A few dugouts survive today, a final physical legacy of the Great War, and are presented for the first time in photographs in Beneath Flanders Fields.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773573119

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9780773573116

Handbook of Vacuum Science and Technology

By: Dorothy Hoffman,Bawa Singh,John H. Thomas III

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Handbook of Vacuum Science and Technology

By: Dorothy Hoffman,Bawa Singh,John H. Thomas III

The Handbook of Vacuum Technology consists of the latest innovations in vacuum science and technology with a strong orientation towards the vacuum practitioner. It covers many of the new vacuum pumps, materials, equipment, and applications. It also details the design and maintenance of modern vacuum systems. The authors are well known experts in their individual fields with the emphasis on performance, limitations, and applications rather than theory. There aremany useful tables, charts, and figures that will be of use to the practitioner. - User oriented with many useful tables, charts, and figures of use to the practitioner - Reviews new vacuum materials and equipment - Illustrates the design and maintenance of modern vacuum systems - Includes well referenced chapters

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Elsevier

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0080533752

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9780080533759

Criminal Insurgents in Mexico and Latin America

A Small Wars Journal—El Centro Anthology

By: John P. Sullivan,Robert J. Bunker

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Criminal Insurgents in Mexico and Latin America

A Small Wars Journal—El Centro Anthology

By: John P. Sullivan,Robert J. Bunker

The 4th Small Wars JournalEl Centro anthology comes at a pivotal time, roughly a third of the way through the term, for the Enrique Pea Nieto administration in Mexico. The mass kidnapping and execution of 43 rural student teachers in Iguala, Guerrero in late September 2014 has only served to further highlight the corruptive effects of organized crime on the public institutions in that country. In addition, many other states in Latin America are now suffering at the hands of criminal insurgents who are threatening their citizens and challenging their sovereign rights. Dave Dilegge, SWJ Editor-in-Chief

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iUniverse

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1491759801

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American Paper Mills, 1690-1832

A Directory of the Paper Trade, with Notes on Products, Watermarks, Distribution Methods, and Manufacturing Techniques

By: John Bidwell

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American Paper Mills, 1690-1832

A Directory of the Paper Trade, with Notes on Products, Watermarks, Distribution Methods, and Manufacturing Techniques

By: John Bidwell

A comprehensive account of early papermaking in America

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UPNE

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1611683165

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A History of Watauga County, North Carolina

By: John Preston Arthur

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A History of Watauga County, North Carolina

By: John Preston Arthur

This well-known history of Watauga County, North Carolina, is considered one of the best ever written. From Watauga County's 'Yankee Ancestry' to its role in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, nothing is overlooked.

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The Overmountain Press

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0932807666

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9780932807663

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Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820

Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820

American Potters and Pottery

American Potters and Pottery

Man-Devil

Man-Devil

Diseases of the Small Intestine in Childhood, Fourth Edition

Diseases of the Small Intestine in Childhood, Fourth Edition

Return to Bull Run

Return to Bull Run

Catalogue of the library of the Peabody institute of the city of Baltimore ...

Catalogue of the library of the Peabody institute of the city of Baltimore ...

Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet

Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet

Beneath Flanders Fields

Beneath Flanders Fields

Handbook of Vacuum Science and Technology

Handbook of Vacuum Science and Technology

Criminal Insurgents in Mexico and Latin America

Criminal Insurgents in Mexico and Latin America

American Paper Mills, 1690-1832

American Paper Mills, 1690-1832

A History of Watauga County, North Carolina

A History of Watauga County, North Carolina

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