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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Enraged Musician |
| Author | Colman the Elder, George |
| Date | 17 Apr 1789 |
| Licence Application Date | 17 Apr 1789 |
| First Performance Date | 18 May 1789 |
| Document Type | Play Prologue |
| Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
| Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
| Reference | LA826 |
| Language | English |
| Document Description | A musical interlude about musicians. |
| Theme | Modes of Performance: Costume, Scenography & Spectacle |
| Theatre | The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket |
| Theatre Manager | Colman the Younger, George |
| Lord Chamberlain | Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury) |
| Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
| Genre | Musical Interlude Musical Interlude |
| Acts | One |
| Keywords | music recitative musician education family love aria ballad |
| Additional Information | Produced as Ut Pictura Poesis. Manuscript contains two slightly varying prologues, one dated Apr. 26, 1789 (and, on verso, Apr. 28, 1789); title-page adds to title, To the Memory of Hogarth. Ut Pictura Poesis. Compared to the printed 'Ut Pictura Poesis! or, The Enraged Musician', 1789 there are a few differences. John payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica states 'It is Hogarths Picture ['The Enraged Musician'] put into words'. |
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