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Title A Cure for a Coxcomb; or, The Beau Bedevil'd
Author Dibdin, Charles  Collins, John  
Date 15 May 1792
Licence Application Date n.d.
First Performance Date 15 May 1792
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA950
Language English
Document Description An opera featuring a painter named Wrench, and his declaration of love for a woman who is sitting for a portrait.
Theme Opera  Courtship, Family & Domestic Life  
Theatre Covent Garden Theatre  
Lord Chamberlain Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Drama  
Acts One  
Keywords painter  love  romance  unrequited love  opera  
Additional Information Manuscript was dated, by Larpent, May 7 and called A New Drama on the cover. A title was not given. There are numerious insertions and sources of interpolated songs given in most cases. Interpolated songs are mostly from John Collins, The Brush. See Collins, Scripscrapologia (1804), and William Oxberry, Theatrical Banquet (1809). Contains a cast list.
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