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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Quadrupeds of Quedlinburgh; or, The Rovers of Weimar |
| Author | Colman the Younger, George |
| Date | 15 Jul 1811 |
| Licence Application Date | 15 Jul 1811 |
| First Performance Date | 26 Jul 1811 |
| Document Type | Play |
| Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
| Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
| Reference | LA1685 |
| Language | English |
| Document Description | Manuscript title-page describes this piece as A Grand Dress’d Rehearsal of a Tragico-Comico-Anglo-Germanico-Hippodramatico Romance. Contains prologue with separate application. |
| Theme | Courtship, Family & Domestic Life |
| Theatre | The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket |
| Theatre Manager | Winston, James |
| Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
| Genre | Romance Burlesque |
| Keywords | song animal |
| Additional Information | Application July 15, 1811, James Winston, The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket. Produced July 26.Compared to The Rovers,or, The Double Arrangement in Anti-Jacobin, (1798), XXI, XXXI (L. Rice-Oxley, Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, 1924, pp. 127-58) Act I virtually identical, except for interpolated speeches of Author and Manager in manuscript version, Act II in manuscript longer and contains scenes not printed, prologue quite different. |
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