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Title Prologue (Of real Novelty we're told, there's none)
Date 28 May 1783
Licence Application Date 28 May 1783
First Performance Date 6 Jun [?] 1783
Document Type Prologue  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA624pro
Language English
Document Description Spoken on the opening of The Little Theatre, Haymarket for the season.
Theme Celebrity Culture & Fashion  
Theatre The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket  
Theatre Manager Colman the Elder, George  
Lord Chamberlain Seymour-Conway, Francis (1st Marquess of Hertford)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Prologue  
Keywords prologue  theatre opening  theatre politics  
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