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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Advertisement; or, A New Way to Get a Husband |
| Author | Fennell, James |
| Date | 1791 [?] |
| Licence Application Date | n.d. |
| Document Type | Play |
| Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
| Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
| Reference | LA924 |
| Language | English |
| Document Description | A farce featuring an Alderman named Goslin, an Irish landlady named Mrs O'Trigger and two widows. |
| Theme | Courtship, Family & Domestic Life Censorship & Politics |
| Lord Chamberlain | Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury) |
| Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
| Genre | Farce |
| Acts | Two |
| Printed Edition | Printed 1791. |
| Keywords | politics widow family servant Irish |
| Additional Information | Manuscript contains several pages cancelled. John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica: 'The Advertisement or a New Way to get a Husband' a farce in 2 acts was licensed on March 3 1791 and according to Larpent's accounts played for the benefit of Lee Lewis. Larpent's Copy contains some curious erasures of passages against dramatic despotism. |
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