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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Werter and Charlotte; or, Love's Victim |
| Date | 16 Mar 1810 |
| Licence Application Date | 16 Mar 1810 |
| First Performance Date | 26 Mar 1810 |
| Document Type | Play |
| Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
| Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
| Reference | LA1620 |
| Language | English |
| Document Description | Manuscript copy of a melodramatic spectacle. Based on the novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' published in 1774 |
| Theme | Courtship, Family & Domestic Life |
| Theatre | Pavilion Theatre |
| Theatre Manager | Astley, John |
| Lord Chamberlain | Legge, George (3rd Earl of Dartmouth) |
| Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
| Genre | Melodramatic spectacle |
| Acts | One |
| Keywords | retelling literature love forbidden love marriage death suicide |
| Additional Information | Application March 16, 1810, John Astley, Pavilion. Produced (as Charlotte and Werther, or, Love and Madness) March 26. Manuscript. |
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