Manuscripts
Black Beard; or, The Genoese Pirate, Songs, Duets, Glees, Chorusses, &c., in. Spectacle. James C. Cross
- Description
No application. Prod. (as The Genoese Pirate; or, Black Beard,) C.G., Oct. 15, 1798 (previously, as Black Beard; or, The Captive Princess, Royal Circus, Apr. 9).
Printed copy (unpublished, sold in the theatre?): dated, by Larpent, C.G., Oct. 12; subtitle, Captive Princess, deleted, and Genose Pirate substituted. Comp. Blackbeard; or, The Captive Princess, in Cross's Circusiana, 1809 (K-D 428): minor differences.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1228
- 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).
