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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Czartoriska |
| Author | Kemble, John Philip |
| Date | 30 May 1794 |
| Licence Application Date | 30 May 1794 |
| Document Type | Play |
| Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
| Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
| Reference | LA1029 |
| Language | English |
| Document Description | Set in 17th Century Poland, The betrothed of a Count was sent away and hidden from him by her father after a political disagreement. The father soon dies and no one knows where he hid the daughter. The Count goes searching for her and finds her imprisoned in a castle by of one of her Fathers friends, who plans to keep her for his own. |
| Theme | Courtship, Family & Domestic Life Royalty & Aristocracy |
| Theatre | Theatre Royal Drury Lane |
| Theatre Manager | Kemble, John Philip |
| Lord Chamberlain | Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury) |
| Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
| Actor | Fillette-Loraux, Claude-Francois |
| Genre | Opera |
| Acts | Three |
| Keywords | marriage love violence military death |
| Additional Information | Produced as Lodoiska June 9. Manuscript dated by Larpent, June, 1794. Compared to Lodoiska, printed 1794 (Kemble-Devonshire Collection 418) there are slight differences. John Payne Collier in his copy of Biographia Dramatica: There seems to have been some doubt what this piece should be called - Kemble in his letter dated May 30. 1794 names it Czartoriska and erases Lodoiska that had been written upon the title page. Nevertheless it was produced as Lodoiska. Larpent in his account book has altered the name from Czartoriska to Lodoviski. |
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| Document linked to |
Elizabeth Leak to Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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