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Field name | Value |
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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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