Since 1969 librarians, scholars, and bibliographers have recognized the Bibliography of British Literary Bibliographies as the single most comprehensive and authoritative source for information about enumerative and descriptive bibliographies of the printed works of British writers and other works of interest to the student of British literary and bibliographical history, particularly printing and publishing, and literary forms and genres. Brief annotations and reviews are included for books, parts of books, and periodical articles published after 1890, and the book's main chronological arrangement under five division headings is complemented by a detailed index of names and subjects.  This new edition has been extensively revised and includes some 1,860 new items and 350 new subject headings, most of them new authors.

Bibliography of British literary bibliographies (His Index to British literary bibliography)

Reference

Howard-Hill, T.H.

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Clarendon P.

Since 1969 librarians, scholars, and bibliographers have recognized the Bibliography of British Literary Bibliographies as the single most comprehensive and authoritative source for information about enumerative and descriptive bibliographies of the printed works of British writers and other works of interest to the student of British literary and bibliographical history, particularly printing and publishing, and literary forms and genres. Brief annotations and reviews are included for books, parts of books, and periodical articles published after 1890, and the book's main chronological arrangement under five division headings is complemented by a detailed index of names and subjects. This new edition has been extensively revised and includes some 1,860 new items and 350 new subject headings, most of them new authors.

Bibliography of British Literary Bibliographies (Index to British Literary Bibliography)

Literature & Fiction

Clarendon Press

British Literary Bibliography 1980-1989, in a two-volume set, is the penultimate decennial section of the well-established serial bibliography, Index to British Literary Bibliography, covering the history and bibliography of British books and authors.

British Literary Bibliography 1980-1989: A Bibliography (Index to British Literary Bibliography)

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

For many years Middleton's "A Game at Chess" was more notorious than read, considered rather a phenomenon of theatrical history than a pre-eminent piece of dramatic writing. "A Game at Chess" was a nine days' wonder, an exceptional play of King James' reign on account of its unprecedented representation of matters of state usually forbidden on the stage. The King's Men performed the play uninterruptedly between 5th and 14th August, 1624 at their Globe Theatre, attracting large audiences, before the Privy Council closed the theatre by the King's command. More recently, growing interest in the connections of economics and politics with authorship have promoted readings that locate the play so firmly within its historical context as propaganda that, again, its worthwhile literary and theatrical qualities are neglected. In writing "A Game at Chess", Middleton employed the devices of the neoclassical comedy of intrigue within the matrix of the traditional oral play. What might have seemed old-fashioned allegory was rejuvenated by his adoption of the fashionable game of chess as the fiction within which the play was set. The product of Middleton's experienced craftsmanship is at once deceptively simple and surprisingly complex.

A Game at Chess: Thomas Middleton (The Revels Plays)

Humor & Entertainment

Manchester University Press

Records the pre-publication literature of the British book, book production, and the bibliographic and textual investigation of academic works of British authors from the Middle Ages to modern times. The work is divided into sections on: bibliography and textual criticism; general and period bibliography; regional bibliography; book production and distribution; and forms, genres, and subjects. The entries include the author's name, the title of the work, the name and place of the degree-granting institution, the date of submission, the degree for which the dissertation was written, a citation of any abstract that has been published, the current location of the dissertation, and a brief summary of the work's contents. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

British Book Trade Dissertations to 1980

Catalogs & Directories

Summertown Texts