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Title Camilla; o sia, Il Sotterraneo
Date 1 May 1806
Licence Application Date n.d.
First Performance Date 1 May 1806
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA1485
Language English
Document Description Domestic drama. The grandson of a Duke rescues a Lady from a band of thieves, falls in love with her and tries to kidnap her. Her husband the Duke suspects that she has been unfaithful and locks her away as she will not tell him who the seducer was.
Theme Courtship, Family & Domestic Life  Royalty & Aristocracy  Women in Eighteenth Century Drama  
Theatre The King's Theatre, Haymarket  
Theatre Manager Kelly, Michael  
Lord Chamberlain Legge, George (3rd Earl of Dartmouth)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Opera  
Acts Two  
Geographical Setting Naples, Italy  
Keywords aristocracy  love  marriage  imprisonment  kidnap  family  
Additional Information Manuscript dated by Larpent April 29; title-page states, for the Benefit of Madm. Grassini; cast. See LA 1717 (substantially the same).
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