Manuscripts

False Shame. Comedy, 3 acts. From Augustus von Kotzebue

Description

No application. [Norwich, Mar. 17, 1801?]

MS: no indication of theatre. Comp. 1799 (K-D 351): MS is apparently a reduction of the translation, printed in four acts, to three acts, accomplished chiefly by cutting the dialogue and inserting a few scenes; other differences are slight.

J.P.C. in B.D.: False Shame,..., was sent for License from Norwich Mar 17. 1801 and licensed by Larpent-It was probably founded on LA 100 [i.e., False Shame]. (B.D., II, 220.)

Type

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Production date

1737-1824.

Call number

LA 1320

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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