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Field name | Value |
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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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Document linked to |
She Would Be a Duchess |
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