David Garrick

George Winchester Stone, Jr., is Dean Emeritus of Libraries and Professor Emeritus of English at New York Uni­versity. He is a former Executive Secre­tary of the Modern Language Associa­tion of America and the editor of The London Stage, 1660–1800. Part 4: 1747–1776. He is now President of the In­ternational Federation of Modern Lan­guages and Literatures.

“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.