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Title De Monfort
Author Kemble, John Philip  
Date 2 Apr 1800
Licence Application Date 2 Apr 1800
First Performance Date 29 Apr 1800
Document Type Play  Prologue  Epilogue  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA1287
Language English
Document Description From Joanna Baillie's 'De Montfort'. In which De Montfor and Revenvelt are engaged in a fierce rivalry that results in Revenvelt's eventual murder.
Theme Conflict, Empire & the Other  
Theatre Theatre Royal Drury Lane  
Theatre Manager Aickin, James  
Lord Chamberlain Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
(Other) People North, Hon F  Cavendish, Georgiana (Duchess of Devonshire)  Baillie, Joanna  
Genre Tragedy  
Acts Five  
Printed Edition Printed 1798.
Keywords adaptation  duel  rivalry  death  murder  forbidden love  
Additional Information Manuscript dated by Larpent Apr. 3. Includes a prologue (endorsed, by J P C, By Hon F North) and epilogue (endorsed, by J P C, By Duchess of Devonshire). Compared to the version printed in Baillie's De Monfort, in A Series of Plays, 1798, the manuscript differs extensively.
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