William Smith Clark

Life
Author of The Irish Stage in Country Towns 1720-1860 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965) x, 227pp., and The Early Irish Stage (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955; Connecticut [Harvard UP] 1973); also edited the Dramatic Works of Roger Boyle (Harvard UP 1937), 965pp.; ed. Essays, Poems, Letters of James Russell Lowell (NY: Odyssey Press [1948]), liv, 424pp.

Bibliographical details
The Irish Stage in Country Towns 1720-1860 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965) x, 227pp., ill. [pls., ports., facs.]. CONTENTS: The beginnings; Ireland's first theatre; The revival of the Dublin stage after the restoration; Irish theatricals from 1663 to the revolution of 1688; Stage activity in Ireland under King William III; The Smock Alley Theatre in the reign of Queen Anne; The Dublin stage in the last years of Ashbury’s management: 1714 to 1720. Bibl., pp.210-17.