The playhouse pocket-companion, [electronic resource] : or theatrical vade-mecum: containing, I. A Catalogue of all the dramatic authors who have written for the English Stage, with a List of their works, shewing the dates of representation or publication. II. A Catalogue of anonymous pieces. III. An Index of Plays and Authors. In a Method entirely new, Whereby the author of any dramatic performance, and the time of its appearance, may be readily discovered on Inspection. To which is prefixed, A Critical History of the English Stage from its Origin to the present Time; With an Enquiry into the Causes of the Decline of Dramatic Poetry in England.