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Louis B. Wright (1899–1984)

Author of The Cultural Life of the American Colonies, 1607-1763

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Works by Louis B. Wright

The Cultural Life of the American Colonies, 1607-1763 (1957) 226 copies, 1 review
The American Heritage History of Colonial America Volume 1: The 13 Colonies (1967) 102 copies
Shakespeare's England (1957) 101 copies, 1 review
Folger Guide to Shakespeare (Folger Library General Reader's Shakespeare) (1969) 74 copies
Four Famous Tudor and Stuart Plays (1963) — Editor — 55 copies
Everyday life in colonial America (1966) 43 copies
Culture on the Moving Frontier (1955) 42 copies
The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization, 1607-1763 (1963) 39 copies, 2 reviews
Gold, glory, and the gospel; the adventurous lives and times of the Renaissance explorers (1970) 36 copies
The Arts in America: The Colonial Period (1966) 36 copies
The Democratic Experience; a Short American History (1963) — Editor — 33 copies
The Thirteen Colonies (2014) 28 copies
South Carolina: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation) (1976) 27 copies
The first gentlemen of Virginia; intellectual qualities of the early colonial ruling class (1982) 26 copies
Everyday life in the age of enterprise, 1865-1900 (1967) 24 copies
The American Heritage History of Colonial America in 2 Volumes (1967) 23 copies
Shakespeare for Everyman (1965) 22 copies
Everyday life on the American frontier (1971) 20 copies, 1 review
Four Great Restoration Plays (1964) 18 copies
Magna Carta and the Tradition of Liberty (1976) 17 copies, 1 review
American Literature, Volume 3, the Last Part of the 19th Century: An Anthology with Critical Introductions (1955) — Editor — 17 copies
Middle-Class Culture in Elizabethan England (1980) 16 copies
American Literature, Volume 1, the 17th and 18th Centuries: An Anthology with Critical Introductions (1955) — Editor — 15 copies
Of books and men (1976) 14 copies
A visual guide to Shakespeare's life and times (1975) 14 copies
The Elizabethans' America; a collection of early reports by Englishmen on the New World (1965) 14 copies
American Literature, Volume 2, the First Part of the 19th Century: An Anthology with Critical Introductions (1966) — Editor — 11 copies
New interpretations of American colonial history (1959) 10 copies
A voyage to Virginia in 1609; two narratives: Strachey's "True reportory" and Jourdain's Discovery of the… (1964) 10 copies
Shakespeare's theatre and the dramatic tradition (Folger booklets on Tudor and Stuart civilization) (1972) 9 copies
Life and letters in Tudor and Stuart England (1962) 9 copies
English colonization of North America (1968) 9 copies
Tradition and the Founding Fathers (Monticello monograph series) (1975) 7 copies
Everyday life in the New Nation, 1787-1860, (Life in America) (1972) 6 copies
The play's the thing : seventeen of Shakespeare's greatest dramas (1963) 5 copies
Dream of Prosperity in Colonial America (1965) 4 copies
Barefoot in Arcadia: Memories of a More Innocent Era (1974) 4 copies
Religion and Empire The Alliance Between Piety and Commerce in English Expansion 1558-1625 (1965) 4 copies
An Essay upon the government of the English plantations on the continent of America (1701) (1972) 4 copies
The obligation of intellectuals to be intelligent : some commentary from Jefferson & Adams 3 copies
The colonial search for a southern Eden (2005) 3 copies
National Geographic : The Britain that Shakespeare Knew 3 copies
Newes from the New-World 3 copies
West and By North 3 copies
The American tradition; national characteristics, past and present 3 copies
Henry IV (The Folger library General Readers Shakespeare, Part I) (1966) 2 copies
The Private Collector and the Support of Scholarship 2 copies
Virginia heritage 2 copies
Advice to a son (1962) 2 copies
The Folger Library, Two Decades of Growth: An Informal Account 2 copies
Royster memorial studies (1976) 2 copies
The first Americans in North Africa; William Eaton's struggle for a vigorous policy against the Barbary pirates,… (1969) 1 copy
The moving frontier; North America seen through the eyes of its pioneer discoverers 1 copy
Letters of Robert Carter 1720–1727 The Commerical Interests of A Virginia Gentleman 1 copy
LOS CONQUISTADORES DE LO IMPOSIBLE- los descubridores renacentistas 1 copy
William Eaton, Timothy Pickering, and Indian Policy 1 copy
National Geographic: The world of Elizabeth I 1 copy
The John Henry county map of Virginia, 1770: A facsimile of the copy in the Library of Congress (1977) 1 copy
Shakespeare in school and college; essays by Louis B. Wright [and others] 1 copy
Shakespear's Sonnets 1 copy
Breve historia de los Estados Unidos de América 1 copy
Great American Gentleman William Byrd of Westover in Virginia: His Secret Diary for the Years 1709-1712 1 copy
The Folger Library: a decade of growth, 1950-1960 1 copy
Shakespeare y la Inglaterra de su tiempo 1 copy
The Forst Gentlemen of Virginia Intellectual Qualities of the Early Colonial Ruling Class 1 copy
The Huntington Library Quarterly A Journal for the History and Interpretation of English and American Civilization… 1 copy
Puritans in the South seas 1 copy
The First Gentlemen of Virgina 1 copy
Elizabethan Stage Conjuring 1 copy
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Hamlet (1603) — Editor, some editions; Editor, some editions — 33,770 copies, 296 reviews
Romeo and Juliet (1597) — Editor, some editions — 29,470 copies, 276 reviews
Macbeth (1606) — Editor, some editions — 26,828 copies, 233 reviews
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600) — Editor, some editions — 20,354 copies, 178 reviews
Othello (1604) — Editor, some editions — 17,406 copies, 131 reviews
King Lear (1608) — Editor, some editions — 15,474 copies, 150 reviews
Julius Caesar (1623) — Editor, some editions — 12,836 copies, 109 reviews
The Merchant of Venice (1600) — Editor, some editions — 11,727 copies, 116 reviews
Twelfth Night (1601) — Editor, some editions — 11,109 copies, 111 reviews
Much Ado About Nothing (1598) — Editor, some editions — 10,986 copies, 102 reviews
The Taming of the Shrew (1623) — Editor, some editions — 8,994 copies, 88 reviews
The Sonnets (1609) — Editor, some editions; Editor, some editions — 8,859 copies, 65 reviews
As You Like It (1599) — Editor, some editions — 7,780 copies, 74 reviews
Richard III (1597) — Editor, some editions — 6,386 copies, 88 reviews
Henry V (1600) — Editor, some editions — 6,200 copies, 54 reviews
Antony and Cleopatra (1623) — Editor, some editions — 5,618 copies, 61 reviews
Doctor Faustus (1994) — Editor, some editions — 5,175 copies, 72 reviews
Henry IV, Part 1 (1598) — Editor, some editions — 5,170 copies, 42 reviews
The Winter's Tale (1623) — Editor, some editions — 4,924 copies, 62 reviews
Measure for Measure (1623) — Editor, some editions — 4,488 copies, 52 reviews
All's Well That Ends Well (1623) — Editor, some editions — 2,284 copies, 30 reviews
Henry VIII (1612) — Editor, some editions — 1,430 copies, 21 reviews
The Duchess of Malfi (1614) — Editor, some editions — 1,187 copies, 20 reviews
Henry VI, Part 2 (1594) — Editor, some editions — 982 copies, 27 reviews
We Americans (1975) — Contributor — 428 copies, 3 reviews
The Renaissance: Maker of Modern Man (1970) 332 copies
4 Plays: Hamlet; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet (1939) — Editor, some editions — 302 copies, 1 review
Literary history of the United States (1963) — Contributor — 191 copies
This England (1966) 173 copies, 2 reviews
America's Historylands: Touring Our Landmarks of Liberty (1962) — Contributor — 154 copies
The History and Present State of Virginia (1705) — Editor, some editions — 87 copies, 1 review
Voyage to Virginia in 1609: 2 Narratives, Strachey's 'True Reportory' and Jourdain's 'Discovery of the Bermudas' (1964) — Editor — 25 copies
Book collecting and scholarship : essays — Contributor — 9 copies
National Geographic Magazine 1964 v125 #5 May (1964) 7 copies
The Yale Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Poems — Editor — 3 copies
Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Proceedings of the Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Summer… (2011) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Bibliodidact | Jun 10, 2012 |
Magna Carta and the tradition of liberty by Louis B. Wright
Excellent but brief history of the influence of this single document. Wonderful illustrations tied to United States history.
 
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SusanGrimesGilbert | Feb 25, 2010 |
Everyday life on the American frontier, by Louis B.… by Louis B. Wright
Discusses the unique and difficult life in America's frontier towns as the frontier expanded westward from colonial Virginia to California and back to Nebraska. Bibliography: p. 248-252.
 
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provinceoftheheart | Jul 21, 2009 |
The Cultural Life Of The American Colonies 1907 1763 by Louis B. Wright
1732 The Cultural Life of the American Colonies 1607-1763, by Louis B. Wright (read 24 Jul 1982) This is the second volume in the series called The New American Nation Series and was published in 1957. I was not too interested by it but it wasn't bad. The bibliography says "One of the best books on foreign immigration, with a useful bibliography, is Marcus and Hansen's The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1869." Whether I am merely interested because I had forefathers who came during that time (1817 and 1840) I am not sure, though I claim to have a greater interest in why people came than "why my forefathers came."… (more)
 
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