During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative selection of the most difficult-to-access texts in the period. It helps cultural historians to examine the place of stagecraft in the eighteenth-century imagination.

Cerberus (ed.), The Theatrical Monthly Th eatrical Reporter Inquisitor; or, Literary Mirror The Theatrical Inquisitor, and Monthly Mirror; Monthly Theatrical Reporter; Charles Newton, Studies in the Science and Practice of Public Speaking, Reading & Recitation; John Brown, The Stage: A Poem; Leman Thomas Rede, The Road to the Stage (1827); George Grant, An Essay on the Science of Acting: By a Veteran Stager; Editorial Notes