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Field name | Value |
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Title | The Royal Merchant |
Author | Hull, Thomas |
Date | 2 Dec 1767 |
Licence Application Date | 2 Dec 1767 |
First Performance Date | 14 Dec 1767 |
Document Type | Play |
Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
Reference | LA276 |
Language | English |
Document Description | This opera is based on Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Beggar's Bush'. |
Theme | Royalty & Aristocracy Conflict, Empire & the Other |
Theatre | Covent Garden Theatre |
Theatre Manager | Colman the Elder, George |
Lord Chamberlain | Seymour-Conway, Francis (1st Marquess of Hertford) |
Examiner at time of Licence Application | Chetwynd, William |
Deputy Examiner at time of Licence Application | Capell, Edward |
(Other) People | Beaumont, Francis Fletcher, John |
Genre | Opera |
Acts | Three |
Printed Edition | Printed 1768. |
Keywords | comedy war Flemish masquerade merchant beggar disguise royalty adaptation |
Additional Information | Numerous differences between manuscript and print, especially Act III which contains songs and passages in the manuscript version. |
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