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Field name | Value |
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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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