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Field name | Value |
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Title | The Foundling |
Author | Moore, Edward |
Date | 22 Jan 1748 |
Licence Application Date | 22 Jan 1748 |
First Performance Date | 12 Feb 1748 |
Document Type | Play |
Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
Reference | LA68 |
Language | English |
Document Description | A comedy that the author states 'gives you more of moral than of sport'. |
Theme | Women in Eighteenth Century Drama |
Theatre | Theatre Royal Drury Lane |
Theatre Manager | Garrick, David Lacy, James |
Lord Chamberlain | FitzRoy, Charles (2nd Duke of Grafton) |
Examiner at time of Licence Application | Chetwynd, William |
Deputy Examiner at time of Licence Application | Odell, Thomas |
Genre | Comedy |
Acts | Five |
Geographical Setting | London, England |
Printed Edition | Printed 1748. |
Keywords | virtue morality innocence marriage women sexuality |
Additional Information | Manuscript endorsed with an 'X', it includes some deletions and corrections and some passages marked X. It also includes a prologue. There are minor differences between the manuscript and printed versions throughout; some parts in manuscript are not printed. |
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