Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine.
[ John Tatham], Knavery in all Trades: or, The Coffee-House. A Comedy. As
it was acted in the Christmas Holidays by several Apprentices With great
Applause. With License (London, J. B. for W. Gilberton and H. Marsh, 1664),
38pp.; 4°. BL: 644.a.13. ESTCR3000.; Thomas Sydserf, Tarugos Wiles: or, the
Coffee-House. A Comedy. As it was acted at his Highnesss The Duke of Yorks
Theatre (London, Henry Herringman, 1668), [ 8], 54pp.; 4° BL:644.f.44.
ESTCR27882; Elkanah Settle, The New Athenian Comedy, containing the
politicks, oeconomicks, tacticks, crypticks, apocalypticks,s typ ticks, seep
ticks, pneumaticks, theologicks, poeticks, mathematicks, sophisticks,
pragmaticks, dogmaticks, &c. of that most learned society (London, printed
for Campanella Restio, next door to the Apollo, near the Temple, 1693), [ 8],
28pp.; 4°. BL: 644.e.61. ESTCR9900; Charles Johnson, The generous husband:
or, the coffee house politician. A comedy. As it is acted at the
Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By Her Majestys servants. Written by Mr.
Charles Johnson (London, printed for Bernard Lintott, and Egbert Sanger,
[ 1711]), [ 8], 63 pp.; 4°. BL: 162.i.15. ESTCT57015; Exchange-Alley: or, the
stock-jobber turnd gentleman; with the humours of our modern projectors. A
tragicomical farce. Humbly inscribd to the gentlemen daily attending at
Jonathans coffee-house (London, T. Bickerton, 1720), 39pp.; 8° BL:
11775.d.l4. ESTCT96325; James Miller, The Coffee-House. A Dramatick Piece. As
it is Performd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majestys Servants
(London, J. Watts, 1737), [ 12], 38pp.; 8°. BL: 80.c.18.(1). ESTCT15.; The
Usurpers: or the Coffee-House Politicians. A farce (London, Jack Dyer, 1749),
[ 4], 8, 1770pp. BL: 161.f.71. ESTCT81092.
Markman Ellis
