Author: HOUTCHENS, LAWRENCE HUSTON AND HOUTCHENS, CAROLYN WASHBURN.
Title: Leigh Hunt's Dramatic Criticism 1808-1831.
Description: London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1950."Though posterity has given less attention to his writings than to those of Hazlitt and Lamb, Hunt was one of the best of all dramatoc critics..He gave his public, who faithfully read trhe Tatler with breakfast, exactly what they wanted to know about a play: penetrating, down-to-earth details on actors, managers, staging, and dramatic technique, rather than heavy philosophical dramatic theories.." Pp.xiv/347, portait frontispiece, owner's name to front free endpaper. Maroon cloth, dustrapper browned to spine, small edge tears. VG/Good.

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