The full content of this document is only available to subscribing institutions. More information can be found via www.amdigital.co.uk
If you believe you should have access to this document, click here to Login.
Field name | Value |
---|---|
Title | Knave or Not |
Author | Holcroft, Thomas |
Date | 06 Jan 1798 |
Licence Application Date | 06 Jan 1798 |
First Performance Date | 25 Jan 1798 |
Document Type | Play Prologue Epilogue |
Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
Reference | LA1192 |
Language | English |
Document Description | A play which is said to have been a critique of the repressive cultural climate in late nineteenth century Britain. |
Theme | Censorship & Politics Courtship, Family & Domestic Life |
Theatre | Theatre Royal Drury Lane |
Theatre Manager | Wroughton, Richard |
Lord Chamberlain | Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury) |
Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
Genre | Comedy |
Acts | Five |
Printed Edition | Printed 1798. |
Keywords | comedy prologue epilogue satire contemporary events politics love marriage family |
Additional Information | Manuscript dated by Larpent Jan. 8 and includes a note from Wroughton, dated stating that the "suggested alteration has been made." Another note, Salisbury to Larpent, May 17, 1798, apparently referring to LA 212, states "if the Plot appears to you to have the same Tendency as Knave or Not which you mentioned in a former Letter, you must not allow the Play to be performed." Also includes a prologue and epilogue. Compared to the printed version, there are slight differences. According to John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica, "there was some difficulty in obtaining a licence for it and Larpent (as appears by letters among Larpent's papers) referred the matter to Lord Salisbury -- It was finally allowed with various alterations made in the manuscript sent to Larpent by R Wroughton the then Manager of Drury Lane." |
Note | Please note that some information has been taken from the Huntington Library catalogue, with permission. This selection of images and content is protected by copyright, and copying or sale of all or part of the images/content is not permitted, except that the images/content may be copied by you for your own research either as prints or by downloading. You are not permitted to alter any downloaded records without prior permission from the copyright owner. Permission to publish any part of the content must be obtained from the relevant copyright owners. |
Copyright | The Huntington Library |