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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | One Rake in a Thousand! |
| Date | 16 Aug 1783 |
| First Performance Date | 16 Aug 1783 |
| Document Type | Play Prologue |
| Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
| Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
| Reference | LA632 |
| Language | English |
| Document Description | Manuscript includes prologue. John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica: It appears by Larpent's Book of accounts to have been sent from Bath in 1783 & he licenced it on June 4th. 1783. |
| Theme | Courtship, Family & Domestic Life Celebrity Culture & Fashion |
| Theatre | Bristol Theatre |
| Lord Chamberlain | Seymour-Conway, Francis (1st Marquess of Hertford) |
| Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Acts | Two |
| Geographical Setting | London, England |
| Keywords | French courtship servant forbidden love sexuality society virtue law song education marriage theft violence |
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