Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 16951705 (Performance in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in Theatre, Music, Dance)

From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. This title charts the interactions of the two companies from a musical perspective.