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Title Acting Mad
Date 4 Dec 1820
Licence Application Date 4 Dec 1820
First Performance Date 6 Dec 1820
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA2184
Language English
Document Description One act manuscript Burletta. The first scene opens with a doctor complains that both his apprentice and his daughter have caught the acting bug, confessing that he caught his daughter reading a playbook in bed. When his apprentice returns he answers all of the doctors questions in Shakespeare quotes.
Theme Courtship, Family & Domestic Life  
Theatre Adelphi Theatre  
Theatre Manager Lee, William  
Lord Chamberlain Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Francis (2nd Marquess of Hertford)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Burletta  
Acts One  
Keywords employment  actor  Shakespeare  comedy  family  
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