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8vo. ix, 222 pp, acknowledgments, introduction, I. George Alexander Stevens: His Life and Works; II. Background for the Lecture; III. the Lecture on Heads: A Text; IV. Production History of the Lecture; bibliography of the works of Stevens with b&w illustrations. First Edition, 1984. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In this carefully researched work, Gerald Kahan traces the genesis, development, and production history of a delightful and important eighteenth-century theatre piece, The Lecture on Heads. His exhaustive research has produced the most comprehensive and accurate published account of Stevens's life and career as well as a bibliography of his works. In addition, readers will find one of the earliest printed texts of the Lecture and a scholarly chronological listing of hundreds of its performances and many of its variations, including information on dates, cities, theaters, actors, ticket prices, and critical reviews."
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GERALD KAHAN was professor emeritus of drama at the University of Georgia and the author of Jacques Callot: Artist of the Theatre.
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