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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Madness Rules the Hour; or, A Budget of Blunders |
| Date | 10 Feb 1810 |
| Licence Application Date | 10 Feb 1810 |
| Document Type | Play |
| Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
| Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
| Reference | LA1612 |
| Language | English |
| Document Description | Originally objected to by the licenser due to a suggestion that the title might refer to the Kings poor mental health. |
| Theme | Censorship & Politics Royalty & Aristocracy |
| Theatre | Covent Garden Theatre |
| Theatre Manager | Harris, Thomas |
| Lord Chamberlain | Legge, George (3rd Earl of Dartmouth) |
| Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
| Genre | Farce |
| Acts | Two |
| Keywords | royalty censorship health and sickness |
| Additional Information | Application February 10, 1810, Thomas Harris, Covent Garden Theatre. Manuscript dated by Larpent February 12, a few passages marked in pencil, by Examiner(?), cast. John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica (s.v. A Budget of Blunders) 'It see manuscript first to have been called ‘MadnessRules the Hour’ but the title and some parts being objected to by the licenser on account of allusion to the Kings insanity, they were altered-One copy was sent to the licenser on 10th. Febry by Harris and the amended Copy on the 14 Feby by Kemble'. See LA 1612 |
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| Document linked to |
A Budget of Blunders |
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