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ID	3637
Last Name	Whitehead
First Name	William
Title
Gender	Male
Date of Birth	1715
Date of Death	1785-04-14
Place of Birth	Cambridge
Place of Death	London
VIAF URI	http://viaf.org/viaf/39437154
Wikipedia Entry	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whitehead_(poet)
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Image URL	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/William_Whitehead_by_Benjamin_Wilson_(crop).jpg
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Titles

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Role	Title	Date
Author	An essay on ridicule. By Mr. William Whitehead, Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge.	1743
Author	Ann Boleyn to Henry the Eighth. An Epistle. By Mr. William Whitehead. Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge.	1743
Author	Verses to the people of England. 1758. By William Whitehead, Esq; Poet Laureat. The Second Edition.	1758
Author	The New English Theatre in Twelve Volumes, containing the most valuable plays which have been acted on the London stage.	1776
Author	A collection of the most esteemed farces and entertainments performed on the British stage. A new edition.	1786
Author	The Roman Father. A Tragedy, written by Mr. W. Whitehead. Taken from the manager's book, at the Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden.	1786
Author	Bell's British Theatre. Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays.	1797
Author	The British Theatre; or, A collection of plays, which are acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket. Printed under the authority of the managers from the prompt books. With critical and biographical remarks, by Mrs. Inchbald. In twenty-five volumes.	1808
Author	English Minstrelsy. Being a selection of fugitive poetry from the best English authors; with some original pieces hitherto unpublished. In two volumes.	1810
Author	The Modern British Drama. In five volumes.	1811
Author	The London Stage; a collection of the most reputed tragedies, comedies, operas, melo-dramas, farces, and interludes. Accurately printed from acting copies, as performed at the Theatres Royal, and carefully collated and revised.	1824

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