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Field name | Value |
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Title | Inkle and Yarico |
Author | Colman the Younger, George |
Date | 25 Jul 1787 |
Licence Application Date | 25 Jul 1787 |
First Performance Date | 4 Aug 1787 |
Document Type | Play |
Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
Reference | LA782 |
Language | English |
Document Description | Based on the known tale on Inkle and Yarico. Inkle, an English trader, finds himself shipwrecked in the West Indies. He only survives after help from an Indian women name Yarico and the fall in love. However, when he returns to civilization he plans to sell her into slavery, and marry another woman to gain social standing. |
Theme | Conflict, Empire & the Other Courtship, Family & Domestic Life Race & Religion Women in Eighteenth Century Drama |
Theatre | The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket |
Theatre Manager | Colman the Elder, George |
Lord Chamberlain | Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury) |
Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
Actor | Arnold, Samuel |
Genre | Opera |
Acts | Three |
Geographical Setting | West Indies |
Keywords | shipwreck trades West Indies slavery marriage |
Additional Information | Manuscript prologue, dated 1789. Prologue was not printed in 1787. |
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