This volume examines Charles Dibdin's extraordinarily wide-ranging career as an actor, lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, comedian, theatre-manager, journal

Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and influential creative forces in late Georgian Britain, producing a diversity of works that defy simple

Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth- century English vocal music, this study restores English music’s relati

An in-depth study of the nineteenth-century London ballad-singer, a central figure in British cultural, social and political life.

Reveals the contribution of Irish writers to the Georgian English stage; argues that theatre is an important strand of the Irish Enlightenment.