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Title The Cady
Date 19 May 1815
Licence Application Date 19 May 1815
First Performance Date 31 May 1815
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA1862
Language English
Document Description A wicked cady intends to marry his enemy's daughter to a beggar, who turns out to be the Sultan of Basra.
Theme Conflict, Empire & the Other  Courtship, Family & Domestic Life  
Theatre Theatre Royal Drury Lane  
Theatre Manager Arnold, Samuel James  
Lord Chamberlain Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Francis (2nd Marquess of Hertford)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Farce  
Acts Two  
Keywords farce  sultan  Turkish  marriage  love  courtship  romance  family  
Additional Information Produced as "Honesty Is the Best Policy." May 31. Manuscript dated by Larpent May 21. A note was inserted, May 29, from J. Stokes, indicating change in title.
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