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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Quarter Day |
| Author | O'Keeffe, John |
| Date | 30 Apr 1798 |
| Licence Application Date | 30 Apr 1798 |
| First Performance Date | 19 May 1798 |
| Document Type | Play Prologue Epilogue |
| Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
| Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
| Reference | LA1212 |
| Language | English |
| Document Description | Manuscript includes a few cancelled passages. There are notes from Lord Salisbury to Larpent, May 4; Wroughton to Larpent, May 14 and Saturday Night-all concerned with refusal to license in first state, alterations, and change of title (see also note bound with LA 1192). Includes a prologue and epilogue. |
| Theme | Censorship & Politics Modes of Performance: Costume, Scenography & Spectacle |
| 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 |
| Geographical Setting | London, England |
| Keywords | correspondence politics theatre politics censorship marriage nobility staging |
| Additional Information | Produced as 'She's Elop'd'. John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica (under She's Elop'd): It was first called Quarter Day and there was a good deal of correspondence between Wroughton Larpent & the Earl of Salisbury before it was licensed on account of objectionable passages. |
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