Manuscripts
The Counterfeit Captain; or, Usurer Outwitted. Farce, 2 acts
- Description
Application Apr. 24 [1781?], Richard Brinsley Sheridan, D.L.
MS.
J.P.C. in B.D.: The Counterfeit Captain or the Usurer Outwitted a farce in two Acts was among Larpents MSS. R B. Sheridans letter for the license is dated April 24 (1781) It was therefore performed at Drury Lane. [I have found no record of its performance at D.L., 1780-83.]
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 555
- 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).
