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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Toy |
| Author | O'Keeffe, John |
| Date | 3 Feb 1789 |
| Licence Application Date | n.d. |
| First Performance Date | 3 Feb 1789 |
| Document Type | Play Prologue Epilogue |
| Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
| Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
| Reference | LA813 |
| Language | English |
| Document Description | Notably one of O'Keeffe's less popular plays. |
| Theme | Modes of Performance: Costume, Scenography & Spectacle |
| 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 | Comedy |
| Acts | Five |
| Printed Edition | Printed 1798. |
| Keywords | humour theatre politics audience |
| Additional Information | Manuscript contains a prologue and two epilogues, one with separate application, undated but endorsed 23d. Janry. 1789. A printed version appears in 'The Dramatic Works of John O'Keefe', 1798, and there are notable and extensive differences, especially in Act V between this and the manuscript version. John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica states: The scene is laid at the Toy at Hampton Ct. It was acted afterwards in 3 Acts as 'The Lie of the Day.' The Epilogue was damned and another substituted on the second night. |
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