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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Padlock |
| Author | Bickerstaffe, Isaac |
| Date | 19 Sep 1768 |
| Licence Application Date | 19 Sep 1768 |
| First Performance Date | 3 Oct 1768 |
| Document Type | Play |
| Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
| Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
| Reference | LA285 |
| Language | English |
| Document Description | This comedy centres on an old man's servant, who is a black man from the West Indies. |
| Theme | Courtship, Family & Domestic Life |
| Theatre | Theatre Royal Drury Lane |
| Theatre Manager | Lacy, James Garrick, David |
| 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 |
| Genre | Comic Opera |
| Acts | Two |
| Printed Edition | Printed 1768. |
| Keywords | comedy servant African-American miser money marriage West Indies |
| Additional Information | Slight differences throughout printed text, including the preface and partial cast. Preface of manuscript differs slightly from the advertisement in the printed text. |
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