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Field name | Value |
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Title | Britons Strike Home; or, The Sailor's Rehearsal |
Author | Phillips, Edward |
Date | 5 Dec 1739 |
Licence Application Date | 5 Dec 1739 |
First Performance Date | 31 Dec 1739 |
Document Type | Play |
Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
Reference | LA16 |
Language | English |
Document Description | This farce focuses on a ship of English sailor's and their conflict with Spanish sailors, along with a performance they are planning. |
Theme | Conflict, Empire & the Other |
Theatre | Theatre Royal Drury Lane |
Theatre Manager | Fleetwood, Charles |
Lord Chamberlain | FitzRoy, Charles (2nd Duke of Grafton) |
Examiner at time of Licence Application | Chetwynd, William |
Deputy Examiner at time of Licence Application | Odell, Thomas |
Genre | Farce |
Acts | One |
Printed Edition | Printed 1739. |
Keywords | maritime actor family military nationalism song Spain scenery |
Additional Information | The manuscript is endorsed with an 'X'. The title page is endorsed 'by Mr. Phillips. Damned'. There are numerous passages deleted with some marked X in margin and some corrections. There are numerous minor differences between the manuscript and printed texts. Some lines deleted in the manuscript appear in the printed version. |
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