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Field name | Value |
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Title | The Disbanded Officer; or, The Baroness of Bruchsal |
Author | Johnstone, James |
Date | 26 Jun 1786 |
Licence Application Date | 26 Jun 1786 |
First Performance Date | 24 Jul 1786 |
Document Type | Play Prologue Epilogue |
Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
Reference | LA738 |
Language | English |
Document Description | A soldier and a Baroness fall in love but when he is sent away on service. When they are reunited he finds himself, through kindness, in a difficult financial situation and feels unworthy of her affection, a situation from which the comedy ensues. |
Theme | Courtship, Family & Domestic Life |
Theatre | The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket |
Theatre Manager | Colman the Elder, George |
Lord Chamberlain | Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury) |
Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
Genre | Comedy |
Acts | Five |
Keywords | love military courtship finance wealth marriage deceit aristocracy |
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