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Title The Irishman in Spain
Author Stuart, Charles  
Date 30 Aug 1791
Licence Application Date 30 Aug 1791
First Performance Date 13 Aug 1791
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA917
Language English
Document Description Initially banned by the Lord Chamberlain because of its allusions to the flirtation of Miss Elizabeth Gunning with the eldest sons of the Dukes of Marlborough and Argyll. Features the adventures of Kilmainham, an Irishman in Spain. Thought to be too gross and vulgar for public consumption.
Theme Courtship, Family & Domestic Life  
Theatre The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket  
Theatre Manager Wrighten, G  
Lord Chamberlain Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Farce  
Acts One  
Printed Edition Printed 1791.
Keywords flirtation  courtship  love  Irish  hero  adventure  
Additional Information There is some confusion as to the dates of performance and application for licence of the revised version. It is unknown if the performance allowed before the revision was submitted in a clean state to the Examiner. The 1791 printed text contains prologue and some scenes not in the manuscript. John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica: On Aug 30 1791, Wrighten the Prompter sent it 'in its altered shape' to Larpent for a licence -- it seems then to have been licensed without mark or remark -- the piece She Would be a Duchess was also among Larpent's manuscripts and all the parts objected to by Genl Gunning marked with crosses -- the title page has these words 'August 13th. 1791. Suppressed.' See LA 915.
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