Manuscripts
Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade. Tragedy, 5 acts. Hannah Brand
- Description
Application Mar. 26, 1791 (date inserted by Larpent?), John Brunton, Norwich. Prod. Norwich (?), 1791; later H1 (D.L. Company), Jan. 18, 1792.
MS: numerous corrections and erasures. Comp. Plays and Poems, Norwich, 1798 (K-D 397): numerous differences in phraseology and arrangement.
See LA 932, alterations for this play.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 896
- 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).
