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Title A Touch of the Times; or, A Ramble thro' London
Date 20 Aug 1788
Licence Application Date n.d.
First Performance Date 20 Aug 1788
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA807
Language English
Document Description Interlude performed at Theatre Royal Drury Lane and The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket.
Theme Celebrity Culture & Fashion  
Theatre Theatre Royal Drury Lane  The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket  
Theatre Manager Linley, Thomas  
Lord Chamberlain Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Interlude  
Keywords interlude  London  fortune  humour  society  religion  myth  
Additional Information Manuscript dated 1788; notices states, to be Recited by Mr Bannister Junr at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica: It is called 'an Interlude' but it is merely a satirical recitation, and it was not at the Haymarket [as is stated in B.D.] but at Drury Lane.
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