Too Curious by Half; or, Marplot in Spain. Musical drama, 2 acts. James Robinson Planché, from Susannah Centlivre, Mar-Plot

Description

Application Aug. 5, 1823, Samuel James Arnold, Lyceum. Prod. Aug. 27.

MS: title-page states, Altered from Mrs. Centlivre by J. R. P. London. 1823; year, on title-page and at beginning of Act II, has been altered from 1822 to 1823; several passages deleted.

See LA 2256, another version of this play, without the songs.

Type

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Production date

1737-1824.

Call number

LA 2362

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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Too Curious by Half; or, Marplot in Spain. Musical drama, 2 acts. James Robinson Planché, from Susannah Centlivre, Mar-Plot

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