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Field name | Value |
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Title | The World in a Village |
Author | O'Keeffe, John |
Date | 19 Nov 1793 |
Licence Application Date | 19 Nov 1793 |
First Performance Date | 23 Nov 1793 |
Document Type | Play Prologue Epilogue |
Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
Reference | LA997 |
Language | English |
Document Description | Captain Mullinhack, serving in the French navy, is captured and sheltered in England by the widowed mother of a child he saved from drowning. |
Theme | Courtship, Family & Domestic Life |
Theatre | Covent Garden Theatre |
Theatre Manager | Harris, Thomas |
Lord Chamberlain | Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury) |
Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
Genre | Comedy |
Acts | Five |
Printed Edition | Printed 1798. |
Keywords | widow Irish French navy poverty family |
Additional Information | Manuscript dated by Larpent Nov. 21. It contains a prologue and epilogue. Compared to the Dramatic Works of John O'Keeffe, 1798, there are numerous differences. |
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Document linked to |
The Siege of Berwick |
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