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Title Delays and Blunders
Author Reynolds, Frederic  
Date 30 Oct 1802
Licence Application Date No application.
First Performance Date 30 Oct 1802
Document Type Play  Prologue  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA1359
Language English
Document Description Lieutenant St. Orne has just retuned from America, where he was fighting with the French. Upon his return he finds himself accused of murdering his Father in Law. Many jokes in this play are at the expense of the English legal system.
Theme Courtship, Family & Domestic Life  
Theatre Covent Garden Theatre  
Lord Chamberlain Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Comedy  
Acts Five  
Printed Edition Printed 1802.
Keywords rural life  politics  military  law  American War of Independence  humour  marriage  family  
Additional Information No application. Produced Covent Garden, October 30, 1802. Manuscript dated by Larpent, Covent Garden, October, 1802, prologue and epilogue (by Miles Peter Andrews), cast. Compared to 1803 (Kemble-Devonshire Collectiononshire collection 392): last scene differs considerably, otherwise virtually the same.
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