The King's Theatre Collection: Ballet and Italian Opera in London, 1706-1883 (The John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection,Harvard Theatre Collection)

The John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the Harvard Theatre Collection is comprised of thousands of books, scores, librettos, playbills, illustrations, and ephemera relating to public performances that incorporate music in an essential way, such as ballet, opera, social dance, pantomime, operetta, and burlesque. With over 1,400 entries and 33 illustrations, this volume provides a window into the historical significance of the King's Theatre to the cultural life of London and abroad, and will appeal to musicologists, historians, theater scholars, and librarians interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera and ballet.John Milton Ward is the author of 'The King's Theatre Collection: Ballet and Italian Opera in London, 1706-1883 (The John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection,Harvard Theatre Collection)', published 2006 under ISBN 9780974396309 and ISBN 0974396303.