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Who Is She Like. Comedy, 5 acts

Description

No application. Prod. (as The Tale of the Castle; or, Who Is She Like) Edinburgh, Apr. 6, 1793.

MS: dated Theatre Royal Edinburgh. March 9th. 1793.

J.P.C. in B.D.: It was sent up to be licensed from the T. R. Edinburgh-Larpent entered it in his accounts under date of March 9th. 1793 and that he received it from Mr Eston [Mrs. Esten?] the Manager.

Type
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Production date
1737-1824.
Call number
LA 977
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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