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Field name | Value |
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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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