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Title The Crusade
Author Reynolds, Frederic  
Date 21 Apr 1790
Licence Application Date 21 Apr 1790
First Performance Date 6 May 1790
Document Type Play  Prologue  Address  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA870
Language English
Document Description Historical opera set during the Crusades.
Theme Opera  Modes of Performance: Costume, Scenography & Spectacle  Conflict, Empire & the Other  
Theatre Covent Garden Theatre  
Theatre Manager Harris, Thomas  
Lord Chamberlain Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Opera  
Acts Three  
Printed Edition Printed 1790.
Keywords performance  scenery  history  religion  war  military  
Additional Information Manuscript notice applies also to The Widow of Malabar (LA 869); states The Crusade is intended for May 1. Manuscript includes prologue and address and a note from Larpent to Lewis, Apr. 26, demanding that a passage be expunged (it is deleted in manuscript); an apparent reply is bound with LA 1058. Compared to the printed version 'Songs, Duets, Chorusses, &c., in the Historical Romance of The Crusade', 1790 there is a difference in Act I correspondence but less discrepancy in later acts; songs, only, printed.
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