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Title Helga; or, The Rival Minstrels
Date 1812 [?]
First Performance Date 1812 [?]
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA1751
Language English
Document Description Based off an Icelandic saga which features two rival minstrels, Haco and Edgar.
Theme Myths, Legends, Folk Tales & Fairy Tales  Courtship, Family & Domestic Life  
Theatre Edinburgh Theatre  
Lord Chamberlain Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Francis (2nd Marquess of Hertford)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Tragedy  
Acts Five  
Geographical Setting Iceland  
Keywords tragedy  legend  minstrel  rivalry  family  
Additional Information Manuscript endorsed, by Larpent(?), Theatre Royal Edinburgh January 1812; title states, Founded on an Icelandic Saga, or History
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