David Garrick

“Mr. Burnim brings to these researches not only a scholarly understanding of the literary and technical history of the English stage but the perceptions of a playgoer vulnerable to the enchant­ment of the theatre.”—Times Literary Supplement

“Scholars and teachers will welcome the instrument Dr. Burnim has provided to aid them in putting eighteenth-cen­tury plays back on the eighteenth-century stage.”—From the Foreword by George Winchester Stone, Jr.