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Field name | Value |
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Title | The Invisible Bridegroom |
Author | Jameson, Robert Francis |
Date | 29 Oct 1813 |
Licence Application Date | 29 Oct 1813 |
First Performance Date | 1813 |
Document Type | Play |
Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
Reference | LA1783 |
Language | English |
Document Description | Manuscript copy with application. Farce set in Brighton. Captain Squander, who never appears on stage, is a financial troubled man who has managed to manoeuvre himself into a hugely beneficial marriage contract with the daughter of an oil trader. However on the morning of his marriage he is arrested. His servant takes on many disguises in order to obtain the means of freeing him to secure the marriage. |
Theme | Courtship, Family & Domestic Life |
Theatre | Covent Garden Theatre |
Theatre Manager | Fawcett, John |
Lord Chamberlain | Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Francis (2nd Marquess of Hertford) |
Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
Genre | Farce |
Acts | Two |
Keywords | marriage courtship wealth debt family |
Additional Information | Dated by Larpent 30 October. |
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