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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Tailors, A Tragedy for Warm Weather |
| Date | 1 Feb 1821 |
| Licence Application Date | No application. |
| First Performance Date | 1 Feb 1821 |
| Document Type | Play |
| Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
| Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
| Reference | LA2202 |
| Language | English |
| Document Description | Printed copy of Roach’s Edition, undated. Much of the manuscript has been altered, there are multiple deletions, interpolated songs, and a new prologue. The cast included is that of a performance at Lyceum, and a new cast has been inserted in Manuscript. |
| Theme | Courtship, Family & Domestic Life Business & Finance |
| Theatre | Olympic Theatre |
| Lord Chamberlain | Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Francis (2nd Marquess of Hertford) |
| Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
| Genre | Tragedy |
| Acts | Two |
| Geographical Setting | London, England |
| Keywords | employment trade tragedy love women song censorship adaptation |
| Additional Information | Dated Olympic, January 26, 1821, in Bridgewater House Library Catalogue, and described as A Tragical Burletta. Compared to 'The Tailors (Or Quadrupeds) a Tragedy for Warm Weather', 1836 (122095) there are printed portions identical (though a different edition) Alterations are not printed. See LA 269 and 1684, the latter another alteration of the same play, using some of the same songs as this Manuscript. |
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| Document linked to |
The Tailors, a Tragedy for Warm Weather Quadrupeds |
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