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Title Assumptions!
Author Centlivre, Susannah  
Date 23 Aug 1823
Licence Application Date 23 Aug 1823
First Performance Date 1 Sep 1823
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA2364
Language English
Document Description In Assumptions!, Anne Lovely and a soldier named Fainwell are in love. Their potential marriage is blocked off by her parents.
Theme Courtship, Family & Domestic Life  
Theatre Lyceum Theatre  
Theatre Manager Arnold, Samuel James  
Lord Chamberlain Graham, James (3rd Duke of Montrose)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Musical Entertainment  Musical  Entertainment  
Acts Two  
Keywords song  music  soldier  marriage  romance  love  family  
Additional Information Produced as "The Guardians Outwitted; or, A Bold Stroke for a Wife. " Manuscript title-page states, "founded on Mrs. Centlivre’s Comedy of A Bold Stroke for a Wife."
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