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Title Folly as It Flies
Author Reynolds, Frederic  
Date 29 Oct 1801
Licence Application Date No application.
First Performance Date 29 Oct 1801
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA1333
Language English
Document Description Satire cantering on a legacy hunter, who hopes to improve his fortune by befriending a rich stranger who then dies suddenly and without a will.
Theme 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 Comedy  
Acts Five  
Printed Edition Printed 1802.
Keywords satire  wealth  aristocracy  humour  servant  
Additional Information No application. Produced Covent Garden, October 29, 1801. Manuscript dated by Larpent, Covent Garden, October 19, prologue and epilogue, cast. Compared to 1802 (Kemble-Devonshire Collectiononshire collection 395): many minor differences.
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