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The Tailors, A Tragedy for Warm Weather. Burlesque, 2 acts

Description

No application. Prod. (as altered?) Olympic, Feb. 1, 1821.

Printed copy, Roach's Edition, n.d.: much MS alteration, deletions, interpolated songs, and new prologue; cast of a performance at Lyceum printed, and new cast inserted in MS. (Dated Olympic, Jan. 26, 1821, in B.C., and described as A Tragical Burletta.) Comp. The Tailors (Or Quadrupeds) a Tragedy for Warm Weather, 1836 (122095): printed portions identical (though a different ed.); alterations not printed.

See LA 269 and 1684, the latter another alteration of the same play, using some of the same songs as this MS.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1737-1824.
Call number
LA 2202
Creator
Larpent, John (1741-1824)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased with the Ellesmere collection from John Francis Granville Scroop Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere, through the agency of George D. Smith and Sotheby's of London, 1917. The collection was purchased by John Payne Collier. In 1853, he sold it to Francis Egerton, Viscount Brackley and 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857).
Associated organization
Great Britain.
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