Manuscripts
The Vicar of Wakefield. Pastoral opera, 3 acts. From Thomas John Dibdin
- Description
Application Sept. 20, 1823, David Edward Morris, H2. Prod. Sept. 27.
MS: dated by Larpent Sept. 21; extensive revision and deletion; cast. Comp. Dibdin's The Vicar of Wakefield, 1817 (K-D 507): extensive differences in scenes and characters; MS in part a prose paraphrase of the printed versification.
See LA 1985.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 2368
- 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).
