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Title Marcella
Author Hayley, William  
Date 4 Nov 1789
Licence Application Date 4 Nov 1789
First Performance Date 7 Nov 1789
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA847
Language English
Document Description Produced at both the Drury Lane and the Covent Garden in competition.
Theme Celebrity Culture & Fashion  European Past  
Theatre Theatre Royal Drury Lane  
Theatre Manager Kemble, John Philip  
Lord Chamberlain Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Tragedy  
Acts Three  
Geographical Setting Barcelona, Spain  
Keywords theatre politics  government  Spanish  love  family  betrothal  suicide  death  prison  
Additional Information Printed copy, pp. 93-174 from Plays of Three Acts; written for a Private Theatre, 1784 and includes some manuscript notes. Compared to Dublin, 1784, another printed edition, the text is identical. John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica states: The date of Kemble's letter, (as Manager of Drury Lane) to Larpent is Nov. 4th. 1789--The two Theatres brought it out in rivalry of each other. See LA 849.
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