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Field name | Value |
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Title | The Campaign; or, Love in the East Indies |
Author | Jephson, Robert |
Date | 12 May 1785 |
Licence Application Date | n.d. |
First Performance Date | 12 May 1785 |
Document Type | Play |
Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
Reference | LA703 |
Language | English |
Document Description | This tale revolves around Saib, an East Indian who falls in love with Miss Seymour, a beautiful and wealthy heiress. |
Theme | Conflict, Empire & the Other Courtship, Family & Domestic Life |
Theatre | Covent Garden Theatre |
Theatre Manager | Harris, Thomas |
Lord Chamberlain | Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury) |
Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
Genre | Comic Opera |
Acts | Three |
Keywords | love courtship Eastern influence wealth colony |
Additional Information | Peviously produced at Smock Alley, Dublin, January 1784. The title-page has been endorsed as a comic opera written by Robert Jephson Esqre the poetry by Sr Nathaniel Barry. Numerous passages marked for deletion, possibly by the Examiner. |
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