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Title Love and Law
Author Allingham, John Till  
Date 17 Nov 1810
Licence Application Date 17 Nov 1810
First Performance Date 30 Nov 1810
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA1641
Language English
Document Description Produced as 'Transformation, or, Love and Law' November 30. Previous title, Love’s Metamorphosis, or, Who Is Who?, deleted. A lawyer is jealous of his ward and so tells his servants to admit no one under his roof except three clients. The ward gives the description of the clients to her lover who enters the house described as each in turn.
Theme Courtship, Family & Domestic Life  
Theatre Lyceum Theatre  
Theatre Manager Arnold, Samuel James  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Farce  
Acts Two  
Keywords family  marriage  forbidden love  
Additional Information Application November 17, 1810, Samuel James Arnold, Lyceum (Theatre Royal Drury Lane Company). Manuscript dated November 23.
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