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Title Half an Hour's Courtship; [or, Le Chambre à Coucher]
Author Planché, James Robinson  
Date 21 Dec 1820
Licence Application Date 21 Dec 1820
First Performance Date 28 Feb 1821
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA2192
Language English
Document Description Set in the bedchamber of Madame de guise, in the Marshall house near Paris. Only four characters, the Duke de Richelieu - described as the Rochester of France, Marshall de la Ferté, Dubois and Madame de Guise.
Theme Courtship, Family & Domestic Life  European Past  
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  
Geographical Setting Paris, France  
Keywords women  domestic  France  aristocracy  society  
Additional Information Application with LA 2191. Dated 22 December, 1820, in Bridgewater House Library Catalogue.
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