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Field name | Value |
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Title | The Basket Maker |
Author | O'Keeffe, John |
Date | 20 Aug 1790 |
Licence Application Date | 20 Aug 1790 |
First Performance Date | 4 Sep 1790 |
Document Type | Play |
Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
Reference | LA880 |
Language | English |
Document Description | From 'Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe: In Two volumes, Volume Two': 'the piece was neither applauded nor hissed, nor laughed at, nor cried at'. |
Theme | Opera Conflict, Empire & the Other |
Theatre | The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket |
Theatre Manager | Colman the Younger, George |
Lord Chamberlain | Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury) |
Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
Genre | Comic Opera |
Acts | Two |
Printed Edition | Prined 1798. |
Keywords | humour royalty nobility military Indian song aria battle recitative |
Additional Information | Manuscript dated by Larpent Aug. 24. Printed in 'The Dramatic Works of John O'Keeffe', 1798, in which there are numerous and extensive differences. |
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